On 2008.02.04 14:30:37 -0500, Alex Sawczynec glasscobra15@gmail.com scribbled 0.5K characters:
On Feb 1, 2008 6:39 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
The breadth has to stop somewhere, so we can get to depth.
You really think depth is the problem? How about you go wander on over to ArbCom, where there is currently a furor over the mass deletion of thousands upon thousands of bytes of information by TTN and other editors who are citing WP:FICT as strict policy. ArbCom finally got their act together and declared an embargo on these actions as well.
- GC
Thousands of bytes is sadly an understatement. We're talking thousands of kilobytes, and by this point, a few years into TTN and other's careers, probably hundreds of megabytes. All those '(-20000 bytes)' really add up.
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