From experience on HN: articles about specific living people are the hardest to support. The site has a specific policy (WP:BLP) that raises the sourcing standards for articles about living people.
But I didn't have to do anything to keep my article on the site. All I did was (a) write a clear statement of why the topic was notable, and (b) cite sources. That is not a difficult pair of rules to remember.
But if you believe the prevailing sentiment on HN about how WP and "deletionism" works, it should have been extremely difficult for me to keep Mary Ann Davidson on WP. I should have been in multiple AfD debates defending the article. Instead, I wrote it, walked away, and 5 years later there it stands.
More often than not, what's actually happening in specific deletion freakouts is, the article in question cites no sources, and makes no claim about why the subject is notable.
But I didn't have to do anything to keep my article on the site. All I did was (a) write a clear statement of why the topic was notable, and (b) cite sources. That is not a difficult pair of rules to remember.
But if you believe the prevailing sentiment on HN about how WP and "deletionism" works, it should have been extremely difficult for me to keep Mary Ann Davidson on WP. I should have been in multiple AfD debates defending the article. Instead, I wrote it, walked away, and 5 years later there it stands.
More often than not, what's actually happening in specific deletion freakouts is, the article in question cites no sources, and makes no claim about why the subject is notable.