Ray Saintonge
I agree that most things won't draw such a debate, and even if a lot of the articles proposed for deletions really are deletable there is still that small obsessive group determined to preserve our "bodily humours" in the manner of Dr. Strangelove. They need to be more sensitive to the efforts of others, and to understand that many of these most bitter disputes are not about what's in the articles, but about a small group that wants to control the work of others.
Yes. The opposed groups are not "inclusionists" versus deletionists, but *contributors* versus deletionists. (This is still the case even though the deletionists contribute elsewhere.) Then the deletionists wonder why the contributors get so damn stroppy.
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