On 2/27/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Am I way of base with believing that uncontroversial information
should just be left? Sources are nice, but if everyone agrees that the
information is correct, what is to be gained by removing it, or
bickering over the quality of the source?
This seems to ignore the observable fact that, for some Wikipedians,
deletion of articles on popular culture, or in common parlance,
"cruft", is seen as an end in itself. The strategy being followed
seems to be to systematically raise the verifiability standards to
exclude online sources, then denude the article of such sources, then
move to delete the article on the grounds that it is unverifiable.
Another technique is to browbeat those with whom one disagrees,
repeating false claims that their opinion may be ignored.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/N…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/N…
In short, the deletion process continues to be a disgrace and breed
the worst kind of incivility.