Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Jeff Lindsay (second nomination)

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• Does anybody notice that most of the people voting to keep it are Mormon/LDS? --Riley 03:56, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
  • From their userboxes, some seem to be but not all. I don't think affiliation alone is enough to claim bias, but I hope the closing administrator will go by arguments and not bulk voting. ~ trialsanderrors 08:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Since he is most notable in the LDS field, it would make sense that LDS-related (including exmormons and anti-mormons) would be familiar with him. Those who have no contact with LDS are much less likely to know about him. This is similar to those who know that Linus and RMS are notable will be programmers. Do a google for anti-mormon and his site shows up on the first page, which is what he is most known for. wrp103 (Bill Pringle) 13:31, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
• Of course they are mostly LDS - he is notable in that area - that is like me saying that most of the people voting on Chris Donald are comic book collectors who live in England. - of course they are - that is the genre that person is known in. --Trödel 14:59, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I don' think it's against policy at all to solicit input on other pages as long as it is phrased neutrally, but it is usually announced on the AfD page as a courtesy. The problems that arise are mostly that it might lead to an influx of editors that vote their "feelings" rather than based on policy. It also leads to problems when the subject has no standing outside the narrow area he or she is engaged in. See a case here where the administrator discounted a number of "feel" votes. ~ trialsanderrors 18:41, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. It is not against policy. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 18:42, 7 July 2006 (UTC)