[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Deletion is good because it totally dispenses with junk.
>
> Parsing... "Destruction = [qualitative superlative] because
> [destruction] [completely destroys] [things that need destroying]."
>
> Please let us all pledge to henceforth refrain from employing circular
> logic in our arguments. And likewise let us pledge to point and giggle
> at these  circulars whenever we have to see them.

If  everyone agreed that "junk" was synonymous with "things that need
destroying", we wouldn't be having this discussion. Some people think
that "junk" is synonymous with "things that should be stored
indefinitely for the public to access".

Steve