[Wikipedia-l] Deletion

Stephen Gilbert canuck_in_korea2002 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 24 12:39:52 UTC 2002


--- Jeroen Heijmans <j.heijmans at stud.tue.nl> wrote:
> André is deleting truly useless pages, so is Mav and
> so am I. We are 
> trying to do what we think is good for Wikipedia -
> if we wanted to do 
> harm, there's far easier and better was than to
> delete ultra-crappy 
> pages with no content.

No one, including your opponants in this debate, think
you are trying to harm Wikipedia.

> If I have to explain every
> single move and 
> deletion and addition I make here and have it
> approved by all 
> Wikipedians, we might as well stop the entire
> project. I'm doing this 
> while thinking reasonable. If you think that
> deletion was wrong: go 
> ahead and write a great article about the subject -
> don't make such a 
> noise out of it.

I don't think anyone wants every move and deletion
should be explained, but the undoable nature of our
current delete function makes people nervous.

Stephen G.

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