On 9/13/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Oh please no. Name anything that could harm wikipedia that doean't get delt with as a speedy or a copyvio.
Deleting encyclopedic articles harms the encyclopedia. Just because a "consensus" of professional deletionists decide that some article or another isn't "notable" doesn't make it unencyclopedic. See Snowspinner's post that started this iteration of this discussion.
Kelly
That's the attitude I'm talking about. If anything gets deleted, it's blamed on deletimonists, whether involved or not. I said wrongly deleted stuff should be put on VFU more. It's easy to complain and say it won't work because of deletionists without trying. VFU gets a disproportionate amount of visitors from AFD, not because deletionism is rampant, but because there's so much drivel being deleted that doesn't deserve to be resurrected.
Deleting encyclopedic articles harms Wikipedia, that's true. But keeping unencyclopedic ones hurts Wikipedia too. Inclusionists are on the other extreme end of the spectrum and just as wrong.
--Mgm