[tom_rath]

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.

[tokenadult]

Out of curiosity, what kind of topics are you writing about when you submit well-cited articles that are later deleted?