[WikiEN-l] Deletionitis

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
> Yes sir, those fanatical deletionists are out to destroy the Wikipedia
> again. Those like-minded thugs are the definition of evil.
> 
> There's an "ad-hoc" policy that every single school gets kept, thanks to
> "fanatical inclusionists" who as a "group of like-minded individuals can all
> en block vote" to keep them. "Then when someone comes along and says 'hey,
> this is ridiculous in this case' the chorus jumps up and says 'that's
> policy. We've kept 'x' number on these grounds. If you oppose this you are
> opposing policy'. Others then think that if it is policy it must have been
> defined and discussed somewhere, so they, even though it seems illogical,
> don't stand up to the block, meaning more and more articles get kept in
> effect by an ad hoc policy set by a few likeminded individuals who are
> always on the page voting."
> 
> See how that works the other way too?
>

I do. We end up deleting information and keeping crap.

End result: the encyclopedia sucks. We still make the internet not suck,
but it could suck even less if were sensible about it.

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