On 12/6/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect it's often systematic bias, i.e. a deep conviction that certain areas of coverage should be killed and anyone disagreeing must be clueless or a troll.
Well, there's that, but there's also the 'I've never heard of it, thus delete' category. Thus, topics not known by your typical Wikipedian are more likely to be nominated for deletion. Most of these will be saved, but the aggravation of deletion debates is an offputting factor.
-Matt