On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 19:34, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Inclusionism and deletionism are a spectrum not a binary choice, wherever you are on that spectrum there will be editors who are more deletionist or more inclusionist than yourself. The closer you are to one end of the spectrum the more likely it is that you will think that the other end of the spectrum is dominant.
Which is a longwinded way of sadly saying no, in fact it's very much the opposite. Deletion debates generally attract deletionists, especially as the inclusionists have to take more time the more potential sources they can check.
I think that's probably a bit too broad-brushed too. Certain types of deletion debates tend to have no reference to -isms, because there's an understood and clearly applicable standard. On English Wikipedia, look at WikiProject Football, where they have a pretty clear notability standard (NFOOTY) such that most deletions aren't that contentious.
As an admin who closes a fair few AfDs, and as a human being who isn't a big fan of loudmouthed ideological posturing, I have to say that I rather like such topic areas.