John Lee wrote:
Ah, this is where we have to agree to disagree then.
Over time I think I've
become much more inclusionist than I used to be, but fundamentally, I see
nothing wrong with deleting useless content; to me, it's the same thing as
removing useless content from an existing article. If the article is
useless, and I can't write a better one which the topic deserves, then there
is nothing wrong with deleting the article.
One difference is that the deleted content from a retained article is
still available through the article's history, though it might take some
digging to find it. This is not the case with deleted articles. The
flaw here is the highly personalized approach to uselessness. What ever
happened to the argument, "If I can't write a better article, maybe
someone else can."
Ec