On Friday 28 December 2007 19:05, Ned Scott wrote:
I'm also confused as to why people seem to think that [[WP:MYSPACE]] applies to anything that they don't see as helping Wikipedia. Certainly, useless categories should be deleted, but being useless does not mean something is being (or is even practical to be) used for social networking. It also seems to set people off, in that since they are assuming these categories are being used for social networking, reasonable arguments that demonstrate wiki-related use will not be given proper consideration.
Like I said, a lot of these deletions are dead on, but we're also losing a lot of categories that were realistically usable. Should some be taken to DRV? Should a kind of "rationale" page be created to help avoid confusion? Are any of these categories realistically being used for social networking, or are we overreacting? Are babies in lurking in the bath water? Is it bath water in the first place? Green or yellow? Up or down? Paper or plastic?
Why do any of them need to be deleted? What do they hurt?
I strongly suggest you (and those who agree with you) read [[Wikipedia:Why do you care?]], an essay I wrote on this subject a few weeks ago.