On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/2 Sigvat Kuekiatngam Stensholt st09039@mi.uib.no:
I am in one sense amused, in another sense astonished, that Ellen Hambro, the leader of what is effectively the Norwegian Environmental Protection Agency, up for AFD, and even more astonished to see some long time contributors voting to delete it.
Things get proposed for AFD all the time that shouldn't be deleted, that's why we have an AFD process and don't just let anyone delete anything they like. If it actually gets deleted, then it may be indicative of a problem, but just getting put up for AFD isn't a problem at all.
Exactly. I still consider it a sign of systemic bias that none of the articles I've written have ever been *put up* for deletion, though finally some articles in a subject area I care about were deleted.
Deletion is just a part of a cycle of things. English Wikipedia is far beyond the point where every edit is precious. Far more viable text is merely edited out of article, rubbed out and forever forgotten, every day than is removed via deletion. I worry more about Wiki rot than deletion, and especially more than nomination for deletion. I worry more about images lost and forgotten as a consequence of vandalism… etc.