On 6/10/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I consider myself a deletionist-leaning Wikipedian, but I can assure you that many deletionist Wikipedians don't operate or think that way. This is a relatively recent phenomenon; incidents of article vandalism and incivility towards those who make an article worth keeping were quite rare a year or two ago. Many old-school deletionists focus just as much on writing articles as they do on discussing their deletion.
I've seen mention by KP and yourself that people have been vandalising articles and then trying to get them deleted, and attacking people who try to improve articles on AFD. I'd like a little more detail, if you could.
I've seen the former happening, but never by established users - by new users as a method of subtle vandalism, yes, and possibly by socks of established users, but I've never seen an established user do it openly. Has it happened?
As to the second - who's doing the attacking? If you can't name names, at least how often and how you'd characterise those doing it?
Thanks,
-Matt