Steven Walling wrote:
actively destroying much of the information that was aggregated into it
You're talking about the unreferenced, un-useful and embarrassing information that was aggregated in to it.
No I'm not. Maybe unreferenced in many cases, but not unreferenceable - merely works in progress.
Also, "embarrassing and unuseful" _to whom_? Can I also nominate articles that I, myself, consider unuseful to be deleted?
Those of you who keep railing about the "evil trend of deletionism" convienently forget that much of the deleted articles are in direct violation of policies that have nothing to do with notability.
If they can be deleted for reasons other than notability, why do you need notability to delete them?