From: "The Cunctator" cunctator@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Thousands of *awful* articles on websites To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: dfd0b40701030958l119eb62dgd51274d0013cce4a@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
It's a perfectly fine, non-biased article that is hurting NOONE by its existence and represents real effort by the contributors. Why does it need to be deleted? WHY?
I agree 101%. Deletionism seems to be a sort of mental disease. Why do these people get so much pleasure from deleting articles that are doing nobody any harm and are potentially helping someone? Do they squash ants for fun too?
Zero.
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Holy Jimbo I don't think I've ever seen such malice towards a group of contributors (well, then again, I *do* intentionally avoid dramatic areas). Just because someone likes deleting things doesn't mean they have a personal security complex where they must satisfy themselves with the destruction of other people's work. If you are an inclusionist, how would you like it if someone said that inclusionists want to see Wikipedia fill up with crap? Or if you are a mergist, how would you like it if someone said that you want to see Wikipedia articles be astronomical in size to the point no one can read them or edit them?
As David Gerard said, "working with people you believe are idiots is NOT OPTIONAL." If we are going to make this work, we have to work together and fight the real enemies: ignorance and closed content. We are fighting this by making a freely-distributable encyclopedia.
On 1/4/07, zero 0000 nought_0000@yahoo.com wrote:
From: "The Cunctator" cunctator@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Thousands of *awful* articles on websites To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: dfd0b40701030958l119eb62dgd51274d0013cce4a@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
It's a perfectly fine, non-biased article that is hurting NOONE by its existence and represents real effort by the contributors. Why does it need to be deleted? WHY?
I agree 101%. Deletionism seems to be a sort of mental disease. Why do these people get so much pleasure from deleting articles that are doing nobody any harm and are potentially helping someone? Do they squash ants for fun too?
Zero.
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