> Again. Leaving an article and requesting additions from the public is drastically different to deleting it because it doesn't meet some arbitrary standard.

Correct, but irrelevant. There was no article. Only a draft specifically created and submitted to be reviewed. It was reviewed and fair feedback was provided. This is different from the process where an article already exists and is marked for deletion.

Edit: See here for more details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237054

Edit 2: There apparently was another article in 2014 which was deleted. The information above is about the more recent AFC that was deleted.