Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sexual slurs2/Note on first AfD

In August 2005 this article survived AfD with finding of "no consensus. The vote was:


 * Delete: 13
 * Keep: 16, of which 5 addressed cleanup:
 * "However, I think a cleanup is in order."
 * "[f]avour a fairly radical cleanup."
 * "Cleanup" [which I interpreted as "Keep if cleaned up"]
 * "Cleanup" [same as above.]
 * "[c]leanup and add citations"
 * Also one Comment, not recorded in the above tallies, the person basically suggested temporarily delete until cleanup.

However, there was possible irregularity. Accusations of sockpuppetry were leveled at the Keep faction, but denied and not proven, although supported by an administrator who had been involved with blocking some of the suspected sockpuppets.
 * One of the Keep votes was unsigned. It was an anon user (User:4.231.179.216) who has 4 Wikipedia edits (so far), all on August 19 2005, one of which was the Keep vote for this article.
 * One of the Keep votes (and User: 67.149.220.112) is that user's only edit to Wikipedia (so far), on August 21 2005.
 * One of the Keep votes was from User:TonyTheTerrier, active from August 19 2005 through September 15 2005. The keep vote was his sixth Wikipedia edit. His user page is tagged "suspected sockpuppet of User:Shran".
 * One of the Keep votes was from User:WehrWolf. His user page is tagged "suspected sockpuppet of User:Shran". His comment did not really address the issues raised in the AfD but did employ the pejorative term "prigs". He has many edits and a long history, but his last edit was less than 5 hours after his keep vote on August 15 2005, at which time he abruptly stopped editing, if that means anything.
 * One of the Keep votes was from User:CaptainJackWill. His user page is tagged "suspected sockpuppet of User:Shran". The keep vote was his 17th Wikipedia edit. All of this user's edits (so far) have occurred on on three different days between August 6 2005 and August 16 2005.
 * One of the Keep votes was from User:Can'tStandYa. His user page is tagged "suspected sockpuppet of User:Shran". He has many edits and a long history, but abruptly stopped editing after August 18 2005 (his keep vote was recorded on August 17 2005), if that means anything. His comment did not really address the issues raised in the AfD but did employ the pejorative term "Sensitive Sallies".
 * One of the Keep votes was from User:Shran, active August 17 2005 through September 28 2005. The keep vote was his sixth Wikipedia edit. Note tags on user pages mentioned above.
 * One of the Keep votes was from User:Ledow, who is active but with only 13 edits so far, beginning August 10 2005. The keep vote was his 4th edit.
 * (The last vote, a Keep vote, was unsigned, but this was just an oversight by an experienced editor.)

Considering the above, and assuming that the "Keep if cleaned up" faction had been able to see the future (no cleanup), I think that in retrospect the article ought to be deleted now (January 2006 AfD) out of respect for the earlier AfD. Herostratus 20:03, 10 January 2006 (UTC)