Justin Cormack wrote:
On 30 Nov 2005, at 08:33, David Gerard wrote:
There's no drastic solution that won't fuck up the community operations of the site. Running a hack'n'slash cull on the live site will lead to the current webcomics debacle times a thousand. We already have specialists in all sorts of areas saying they don't even want to bother starting to write up something they know for Wikipedia because (quote from Sunday's UK meet) "some idiot will delete it *because* they don't understand it." Imagine that outside attitude for a thousand specialist subjects.
Its a real pity that people think that stuff will be deleted. Generally I dont think it is the case.
It probably isn't, but the perception is that it is. How to fight that? There's too many easily accessible examples of this happening.
I have had to defend articles I wrote from AfD, but there has not been a problem
The problem is often even knowing it's been nominated for deletion. The AFD regulars consider notifying the authors too much like work or something.
- d.