I think people may perhaps be misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm
not saying that we shouldn't let people do anything that's outside
process - that would be ridiculous; all I'm suggesting is that things
that become common practice, they should be described on policy pages,
so that everyone knows what's going on.
--
David
On 02/10/06, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
> On 10/1/06, Jimmy Wales
jwales@wikia.com wrote:
>
> >
> > One thing to remember is that deletions can be undone. Deleting an
> > article is really no big deal.
> >
>
> Okay. Given that line, I cannot resist the following. (so sue me, some
> straight lines really need to be punched on)
>
> Please (pretty please, with cherry on top) go on the record saying
> that undeletion is no big deal. I dare you, I double dare you.
>
> Glossing on... (you may want to disregard the following, the point is
> all above, what follows is just driving it into the ground; pounding a
> dead horse, choose your
> metaphor for explicating things plain as pikestaffs)
>
> Just because one *can* do something (or in this case _undo_) it does
> not mean that doing that is easy/costless/(or likely to happen in any
> significant majority of cases).
>
> Undeleting articles does happen, but it does not make deleting
> articles a trivial act. "Big deal" really needs to be deprecated
> around wikipedia, as a term in general. Because it gives out the
> appearances that wikipedia is still a Ben&Jerry operation, when
> clearly it is not. (And yes, I could go on and on on this subject, but
> I think the point is made.)
>
>
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