Phil Sandifer wrote:
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Let me be blunter: if this is standard for how the community considers deletion (and I've seen precious little evidence of late that it's not), the community can no longer be trusted with this function.
I've known this for two years now. "The People" can NEVER be trusted. Democracy works well in theory, but not in practice - and people keep forgetting that Wikipedia is not an experiment in internet democracy (hence, they keep voting and denying that they're voting).
"You know how stupid the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are stupider than that!!!"