The discussion page is fascinating.
Initially people linked the page to reddit because of the UK Politics mods saying "The admins explained she was employed by reddit'". The response was "The UK Politics mods could be lying about what the Reddit admins told them, this isn't proof".
Then people linked the article to a post by the admins where the admins explicitly state "yes this policy about our employees was ott, it's true". The response was "Nobody cares about forum drama, link it to an actual news source" and also "we literally don't care if it's true, it has to be in news articles".
So then people submitted a range of news articles, and the response was both "nah, the Spectator and The Metro and those other pages don't count".
This really does come across as bad faith arguing and deliberately moving the goalposts rather than nerds being pernickity, just like the repeated deletion requests claiming it's not notable, basically to cover this up.