It's the unfriendliness of the editor_s_ which has been the problem in my experience. When someone goes through the trouble of creating a well-cited article on

It's the unfriendliness of the editor_s_ which has been the problem in my experience. When someone goes through the trouble of creating a well-cited article only to have it deleted for being 'not notable', they're unlikely to bother again. If there's a Wikipedia issue to resolve, it's the deletionists and the strange environment which encourages their behaviour.