From: David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au JAY JG (jayjg@hotmail.com) [050520 03:47]:
- School inclusionists are now organized, and have set up a
"Schoolwatch"
page to ensure that all schools are kept. These people vote to keep
every
single school, usually with cut and paste comments.
I only use cut-and-paste comments myself in response to cut-and-paste nominations.
Fair enough, but you're not one of the people I'm talking about.
Thus a group of a dozen or so inclusionists can easily force Wikipedia to keep every
single
school article, no matter how silly, uninformative, trivial or
unverifiable
they are.
I look at every article I vote on first. Are you saying I, or these hypothetical conspirators, in fact don't?
You obviously do; you've even voted to delete some schools. The organized inclusionists do not read the article, nor do they believe they should have to; for them, including all school articles is a matter of "principle", usually of the "Wikipedia is not paper" and/or "schools are intrinsically notable" sort.
And, in fact, that's exactly what they do. However, whether these dozen people represent the consensus of Wikipedia is another
question.
Indeed, but that applies to the people flooding VFD with school articles, and indeed to *any* so-called "consensus" formed only of VFD habitues, so you're not actually saying something very specific.
You say that like it's a bad thing. ;-)
Jay.