On 7/14/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I don't want to delete them, but a lot of them get deleted. Like -- a lot. If I go back through my blog archives and click on the "list of" entries, a fair portion have already been deleted. And that sample contains only those lists that I thought were awesome.
You can see a sample of recent list deletions using the deletion sorting list called "Lists"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Lists
Which type of lists have you seen disappear? Recently there has been a lot of "Lists of songs about ...." deletions. Personally I have no love for lists about songs, but it seems like a lot of effort is being flushed down the tube.
It would be nice if it was a convention to transwiki them rather than delete them -- at least then there's the potential to still view them (and maybe move them back someday if the political winds change).
Somewhat offtopic -- it would be cool if, in a few years, wikipedia was the tip of a churning iceberg of content: which is to say, it would nice if there was a multitiered system whereby very little gets deleted outright, and most stuff gets moved elsewhere. This type of system would fuel much greater public participation (decrease friction, if you want to get overly abstract).
I recently saw a discussion that was suggesting setting up an incubator.wikia.com where any wikimedia content could be transwiki'ed to; that wikia site would then work out what to do with the incoming articles. Sadly, I cant recall where I saw this; maybe I was only dreaming.
-- John