Wikipedia talk:Deletion review/Log/2019 December 23

Userbox DRV Closure
This is about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#User:Queerly_Bohemian/Userboxes/FreedomFighters_(closed) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2019_December_23. I agree with your close. I want to comment on one comment. It was said that there is a higher acceptance of non-admin closures at MFD than at AFD. I am not a regular at AFD, and so wouldn't know, but I don't have a high acceptance of non-admin closures at MFD. My own thinking is that I haven't seen a tradition of non-administrators who stay out of the way of discussions at MFD so as to be uninvolved and then do the close. I think that this was a case of the non-admin closer either trying to establish a new tradition of acceptance of non-admin closures, or of setting up a record for RFA. However, I thought that the appellant was being tendentious, and was looking to see if the case was still open so as to make a request to the closer to admonish the appellant. What the appellant was saying was that they had made a particular policy argument, and that the closer was supposed to decide that their policy argument trumped all of the other policy arguments, and so cast a supervote. Oh well. It's closed, and I agree with your closure, which affirms the right close by the wrong closer. I don't think that the non-admin closer needed to be warned, but the appellant will probably get warned at some point. Robert McClenon (talk) 07:10, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * That is absolutely on point, . ——  SN  54129  12:12, 1 January 2020 (UTC)