Deletion review (Simon Strelchik) ==

Calton, it's hard to say what to do here. I have the feeling the whole sockpuppet thing is sort of like the O.J. case: the LAPD framed a guilty man. In other words, if all the puppets were subtracted from the three AfDs, I'm still not sure what the result would be. I'm guessing it would not be a consensus for deletion. (No, I'm not willing to do the math, but it looks like there have been a few attempts, themselves possibly puppet-infested.) 

I don't think the presence of sockpuppets supporting an article necessarily justifies its deletion, if the article is otherwise supportable. I think Canadian Federal election candidates from the major parties can reasonably be considered suitable for articles, but I can be persuaded otherwise. We'll see how it goes. In any case, thanks for the clarification about the accounts confirmed by CheckUser to be socks. (I agree that the whole VaughanWatch think, unlike Simon Strelchik et al., was totally out of control.) Cheers,  

Sir,
Having read your comments on this Deletion review, may I politely ask how many edits it is necessary to have undertaken (and am I right in assuming that you would only count constructive and unchallenged/unreverted edits) before one is qualified to comment on DRvs (and, I would assume, also AFD and similar issues) ??  Clearly, if such a qualification is required, then I have been an egregious offender   

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