Real life has interfered with my keeping up with the Misery (band) situation. It seems the Australian band Misery lives on at Wikipedia, while the Minneapolis one is still dead and buried.
Here are some comments from my talk page that resulting from my nomination of Australian band article:
Are you aware of our P
OINT policy? You most probably are; it is well-known because too many Wikipedians make a sport of accusing other Wikipedians of violating it. I prefer not to bandy it about myself, but your nomination of
Misery (Australian band) is a textbook case. Just because you're pissed off that your pet article was deleted, you're going to piss away the valuable time of other contributors. To prove what? Will it bring your article back? Will it improve the encyclopaedia? Will gnawing this bone help you sleep at night?
Hesperian 11:45, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
WARNING
The attempt to delete this article for the reasons given is directly contrary to the cooperative principles of wikipedia. (I pass no judgment on any of the articles themselves--I am an ingnoramus on the subject) But to do so as a combination of revenge and experiment is interfering with the operation of AfD & other processes of the encyclopedia, and could well be considered reason for a block. I hope you will realize your error, and apologize on the relevant talk page, and at the afd. The correct action there is to ask to withdraw the request for deletion. DGG 14:46, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Anti-Warning Calm down Magic
I suppose it would be asking too much of Wikipedia to look beyond why an article was nominated and then objectively evaluate it? That's like saying, The devil made the nomination, so it's wrong. That we can find some rules and attempt to apply them here, isn't helping the situation. I made a nomination of an article with not much going for it. Are we at Defcon 1 now? Nanabozho 07:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC) (End of stuff from my talk page.)
I'd say we saw a rally to Giggy's defense here, and the well known references to policy. Quite predictable. I'll be posting more in the coming days with my replies to Hesperian and DGG. And as always, thank you for editing Wikipedia.
Here's the discussion on the Afd page:
Articles_for_deletion/Misery_(Australian_band)
