On 10/17/05, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
I was originally in agreement with you concerning the existence of the article but insulting the 'other side' is hardly a good way to get other people to sign up to your philosophy on this matter.
Are we writing an encyclopedia or running a beetle drive? We have somehow arrived at a system that pits well-meaning, bureacratic ignorance against the only force that can ever gainsay it: pure self-absorbed, unflappable belief that good stuff shouldn't be deleted.
The unanimous vote to delete that article can only possibly mean one thing: we've got a real problem on AfD. it's become a means by which information is removed from Wikipedia for no other reason that brute ignorance.
If pointing this out offends you, I'm sorry. There is no pleasant way to put that bad news.