From: Nick Boalch n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk
Angela wrote:
For the benefit of those of us without the relevant cultural background, what *is* the pure wiki deletion system?
The basic idea is that a page is "deleted" by being blanked by any user. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pure_wiki_deletion_system_(proposal)
I think people probably need to remember that we're using Wiki to *build an encyclopaedia*: Wiki is a means to an end, not the end itself.
This is well worth repeating, since it seems to be so quickly forgotten. Ideally we should also get a developer to have it generated as an automated response to anyone who, on AfD, posts the phrase "Wikipedia is not paper". "No, but it *is* an encyclopedia".
Jay.