At 09:03 AM 9/23/02 -0400, you wrote:
All right. The big deleters (Engels, Jheimens, Mav) have adopted a more aggressive policy for deleting pages than the stated one (on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] and [[Wikipedia:Policy on permanent deletion of pages]]).
Primarily, they delete stubs.
We hashed this out once a while ago (see [[m:Kill the Stub Pages]], [[Wikipedia:The perfect stub article]], [[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub]]) and as you can see from the deletion policy, the consensus was that in the face of disagreement/ambiguity, it was better to not delete stubs than to delete them.
I'd like to ask people to stop deleting stubs until we discuss this again.
(See also [[User talk:Maveric49]] for a beginning debate.)
I quite agree, although my vested interest in stubs is less now days, since I have both had little time and have generally worked on substantial articles. I just don't have time to monitor the deletion police. I did notice a proposed deletion of [[poverty]] a dismal article about a dismal subject, which I thought rather unwise. It would seem on obvious candidate for editing and addition of more substantial material rather than deletion.
To the individuals involved, I would say that if you spent more time writing articles you would have less time for vandalism.
Fred