On 15/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/15/07, Todd Allen
<toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I, for one, will in that case find -very- inventive ways to
> determine that things fit a speedy criterion. :) Realistically,
though,
we need
-more- cutting, not less. We've got plenty of writing done
already, but far too much resistance to cutting, a normal and healthy
part of any editing process.
If that's the way you feel, you could probably delete everything I've
created, FedEx me a box of razor blades, and come out ahead.
Less whimsically, I think too many of us carry that immediatist,
"db-notreadyforprimetime" attitude.
I spent an hour today clearing up after someone who'd deleted a swathe
of disambiguation pages with four or five article-worthy redlinks and
one link, then redirected them to that page. And then gone through
more disambiguation pages *removing* redlinks from them - again,
things which obviously were going to be articles.
I really do despair, sometimes.
I admire your perseverance. After seeing this happen so many times I've
tired of fixing up after this. Gone are the intelligent deletionists like
Geogre.
Johnleemk