On 14 April 2013 11:44, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Indeed. As is characteristic of false dichotomies. I was once asked by a prominent journalist where I stood on this. I replied that it was a boring question. And that once I had defined myself as deletionist on science topics, where we don't want cruft and pseudo, and inclusionist on humanities topics, where we really cannot always know what the academics will turn to next.
When people from TV come asking for a (quote) "passionate deletionist" -
http://www.mail-archive.com/wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg01448.html
- we're well past the time of being able to talk sensibly in such polar terms.
- d.