2008/7/20 Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com>om>:
Although there are plenty of people turned-off
and turned-away by the
deletion of factually correct, verifiable and referenced articles.
There is nothing quite as disheartnening as working on an article,
only for a faceless gang of self-appointed AfDers to come along and
decide that this article falls below an arbitrary threshold for
inclusion in Wikipedia. My Wikipedia experience has been significantly
soured by such arbitrary deletions and my efforts toward Wikipedia
have fallen off recently as a result.
Getting a properly reffed article deleted is quite a trick.
If I knew that my work could survive at least in
some form (a
publicly-viewable deletion namespace with libel and slander removed,
e.g.), perhaps I would allow myself to get more excited about working
on Wikipedia again.
If you wrote it yourself there are no shortage of free webhosts on
which it can survive.
The point isn't about a particular article ("my work" was a wrong
expression to use here): it is to do with the efforts I put into
editing Wikipedia and whether it is worth it. I've had problems with
referenced, factually-accurate and verifiable articles that I have
worked on being deleted due to questions to notability. It is also
disheartening to go to AfD and see articles which are referenced,
factually-accurate and verifiable being deleted due to notability.
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Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)