From: "The Cunctator"
The removal of any guidelines for inclusion on vfd (including the most important one: when in doubt, don't delete) is criminal.
So is the separation of guidelines for "regular" people and for administrators.
So is the "merge and delete" attitude. Merging entries into big messes under general titles is much, much worse for the long term health of Wikipedia than having many entries with specific titles.
So is the "kill all ephemera" rampage, since presuming that we know now what will be considered ephemera 10, 20, and 1000 years from now is pathetically presumptive, especially considering there are NO SPACE LIMITATIONS on Wikipedia.
So is the obvious takeover of the VfD page by a horde of deletionists. Once upon a time one vote against deletion was enough to stop deletion. And that is all it should take.
Once upon a time, pages could not be deleted by anyone but Jimbo and Larry Once upon a time, every user had a voice for or against deletion, not only respected old hands (with at least xx days of presence, and at least nn number of major edits) Once upon a time, a "regular" user could ask for the undeletion of an article and see his request respectfully and generously temporarily acknowledged Once upon a time, it was also possible for a sysop to undelete articles upon someone asking to see the content, this without being repeatedly outed Once upon a time, things were decided per consensus, not per democracy 50% + 1 voice (undeletion rule) Once upon a time, there were not so many rules that makes en looks like a french administration Once upon a time, users did not need to be sysops to dare weeding wikipedia Once upon a time, users dared weed wikipedia without fear of being said all the time their weeding does not follow the rules Once upon a time, a rule was not so much carved in stone that it could not be challenged Once upon a time, it was easier :-)
So is, imho, the renewed assault on the sep. 11 pages, but I guess that's to be expected, since the argument "some people put so much work into carefully researching the reports on the lives of the people killed that day and creating entries for them, and we can't be bothered to do the same for other people who have been killed, so we should delete all the entries" will never die.
Some people said they would not make donations, because there was no reason their donation would be used to support the existence of the 9/11 memorial :-(( Some people suggested wikipedia memorial should also welcome all the iraki victims for npov :-(((( At least, this is not deletionism
Today, I am negative, tomorrow, I will be positive :-)
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