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I saw that you contested the PROD. I created the article a long long time ago. I had a WP:COI in that I worked for the company for a period of time in 2009-2010, though I was not asked or paid to create the article. It was deleted at AFD, then I recreated it with new references. Said references are largely dead links now. The company seems to be defunct since it was acquired - I am not in contact with anyone I knew at the company and I believe they all since moved on. I can't confirm it's defunct though, it may still exist in some form. If the community wants to keep the article I'm totally OK with that. Andrevan@ 23:49, 16 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
The other reason I deprodded the article is that there had been a previous AfD on it; the normal reasoning is that if an article is nominated for deletion, gets deleted, and later gets recreated, this is evidence that the deletion isn't uncontroversial and thus the proposed deletion tag is inappropriate. (The {{prod}} template noticed this and was asking for help, which is how I found the article in the first place.) That reasoning doesn't 100% apply in this case, because the recreator and proposed-deleter were the same person, but the situation is complicated enough that I don't think a WP:IAR proposed deletion would have much chance of succeeding (there would be a need to ignore the letter of the proposed deletion rules, and it's complicated to work out whether the spirit of the rules applies or not in this case). In general, ignoring rules to proposed-delete articles is unnecessary because there are alternative deletion processes available. --ais523 23:59, 16 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
I suspect spirit-interpretation of policy is just as valid as it used to be, but the number of situations in which it's useful/required has gone down, because if repeated bending of the letter of the rules becomes accepted, that's a very good reason to change the letter of the rules to better match the spirit behind them. --ais523 00:57, 17 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
A minor issue, but scripts like User:Ais523/votesymbols.js should have a sortkey of votesymbols
. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:25, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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