Tom Cadden wrote:
I was always in favour of deletion of pages, and
disagreed with those who wanted to keep every
irrelevant, impossible-to-make-encyclopædic article.
But rampant deletionism has hit ridiculous levels on
WP now. I daren't even go near the article deletion
page because of what goes on there. Now the template
deletion page has become ridiculous.
As someone said in #wikipedia the other day: "the deletionists go around
deleting stuff; the inclusionists just whinge on wikien-l about how bad
it is." So: stop complaining, and start telling people *why* they need
to be kept.
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We could no with a page of ''useful
templates'' where
existing templates could be picked out for use in new
articles.
See [[WP:TM]]. It's a bit of a mess, but it's the best place to start.
It seems to be the same 'greek chorus' of
deleters who
do the blanket nominating and do blanket voting to
delete everything in sight. They seem all too often to
drown out protests from others that their deletionitis
is out of control.
Once it was the case that only crap was deleted. Now
it seems that crap survives while the delete gang
propose good articles, good templates and good
infoboxes for deletion.
Wikipedia needs to do something to reign in the delete
brigade. Deletion used to be used to keep up
standards. Now it is bringing down standards, doing
damage to content and design and seriously pissing off
users who are doing serious work and have to spend
their days fighting off attempts to delete things. The
final twist is that many of the most fanatical
deleters seem to be down damn all writing themselves,
simply proposing large numbers of things for deletion
all the time, irrespective of quality, usefulness or
benefit to Wikipedia.
Notifying the creator/last editor of such templates would be a Polite
Thing To Do. But no, it's far easier to subst: and {{d}} something,
because that way you can get away with it.
Deletion is Evil.
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