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. 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).
On 7/14/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Ben Yates wrote:
I like listcruft -- it's one of my favorite parts of wikipedia. Is there any way I can spearhead a project to transwiki these lists somwhere, instead of deleting them forever?
Why do you want to delete them? They are clearly an important part of Wikipedia?
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Some are important (or at least lesser-evil) and should stay, some are...not, and should go.
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