Justin Cormack wrote:
On 30 Nov 2005, at 08:33, David Gerard wrote:
> There's no drastic solution that won't
fuck up the community operations
> of the site. Running a hack'n'slash cull on the live site will lead to
> the current webcomics debacle times a thousand. We already have
> specialists in all sorts of areas saying they don't even want to bother
> starting to write up something they know for Wikipedia because (quote
> from Sunday's UK meet) "some idiot will delete it *because* they don't
> understand it." Imagine that outside attitude for a thousand specialist
> subjects.
Its a real pity that people think that stuff will be
deleted. Generally
I dont think it is the case.
It probably isn't, but the perception is that it is. How to fight that?
There's too many easily accessible examples of this happening.
I have had to defend articles I wrote from
AfD, but there has not been a problem
The problem is often even knowing it's been nominated for deletion. The
AFD regulars consider notifying the authors too much like work or something.
- d.