John Lee wrote:
Ah, this is where we have to agree to disagree then. Over time I think I've become much more inclusionist than I used to be, but fundamentally, I see nothing wrong with deleting useless content; to me, it's the same thing as removing useless content from an existing article. If the article is useless, and I can't write a better one which the topic deserves, then there is nothing wrong with deleting the article.
One difference is that the deleted content from a retained article is still available through the article's history, though it might take some digging to find it. This is not the case with deleted articles. The flaw here is the highly personalized approach to uselessness. What ever happened to the argument, "If I can't write a better article, maybe someone else can."
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