[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 04:15:40 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now that's a lovely perennial idea.  There's no point in hard deleting any
> article save to protect private information in the history.  You can pure
> wiki delete; or even pure wiki delete and protect the blank page; but
> removing the work done from view of interested passers-by is wholly
> unnecessary.
>
>
I haven't found any persuasive argument against it. Usually the objection is
"but then there would be edit wars over deletion!"

- causa sui


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