On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:59 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 14 April 2013 13:41, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
He certainly could have intervened in the arb com
cases where I was
vilified for my VfD comments, which I guess would be characterized as
"inclusionist".
I think the overarching problem was that you spent several years being
an unproductive pain in the backside. This tends to leave people less
inspired to generosity.
Granted. If I knew now what I knew then... Well, I probably just would
have left sooner. But the overarching focus of both arb com cases was
surrounding VfD.
As for the correlation of the "oh shit graph" to inclusionism/deletionism:
A restriction of new article creation to registered users only was put in
place in December 2005." (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
)
In December 2005, there is a sharp spike in "active editors", and a sharp
decline in 1-year retention. I would say that is at least partially a
direct result.