Tom Cadden wrote:
Wikipedia needs to do something to reign in the delete brigade. Deletion used to be used to keep up standards. Now it is bringing down standards, doing damage to content and design and seriously pissing off users who are doing serious work and have to spend their days fighting off attempts to delete things.
But don't forget! If you don't want them to trash your hard work, it's up to *YOU* to spend three hours a day going through all the deletion pages! %-D
I'm surprised AFD doesn't seem to acknowledge that driving off contributors or making them not bother is actually a bad thing.
The final twist is that many of the most fanatical deleters seem to be down damn all writing themselves, simply proposing large numbers of things for deletion all the time, irrespective of quality, usefulness or benefit to Wikipedia.
I'd like to see numbers on that before agreeing.
- d.