[WikiEN-l] Deletionitis

[David Gerard]

Tom Cadden wrote:

>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.


But don't forget! If you don't want them to trash your hard work, it's
up to *YOU* to spend three hours a day going through all the deletion
pages! %-D

I'm surprised AFD doesn't seem to acknowledge that driving off
contributors or making them not bother is actually a bad thing.


> 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.


I'd like to see numbers on that before agreeing.


- d.