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.
- d.