The result of the debate was No Consensus - The essay appears to comply with relevant policies and describe actual observed practice and the policies cited in favor of deletion are not clearly on point; however, the fairly strong community dislike for the essay is important. After reveiwing the essay, which I had never seen before I was somewhat baffled by the opposition. Still, this is an example of how there can be a clear lack of consensus. I would caution the editors here from resorting to accusing "the other side" of the same practice discussed in the underlying essay and further remind them that saying the same thing over and over again and arguing ad nauseum points already made is not at all helpful and such comments were effectively disregarded. Although I note that comments were continuing to come in shortly before closing, they were not strongly one way or the other and there was no hope of a consensus developing, such that this is in fact a SNOW No Consensus. Although userfication was considered, there was no real consensus for that either, even though the deletes were all considered as comments in favor of userfication; furthermore the essay appears to reflect the thoughts of several editors. Some of the arguments show a distinct misunderstanding of Consensus and were disregarded. Doug.(talk • contribs) 23:22, 30 August 2008 (UTC)