At 06:39 AM 9/25/02 +0200, Andre Engels wrote:
Well, I don't know where I fall, but since my name seems to be one of those coming up in the debates - examining my motives doesn't change them. My motive is that there are some articles that in my opinion are worse than no article, and I keep with that opinion.
Yes you make many deletions, as I see from the log, most of which are fully justified. I only found one or two deleted entries that seemed interesting to me. (Although some substantial topics I'm not aware of the significance of may be there). [[infant mortality (computer)]], fascinating topic although it ought to be expanded to include all devices. [[Abermud]], the father of them all, although not the grandaddy, that was Adventure. I guess I want to see interesting topics remain, even if undeveloped.
But we ARE justifying and we ARE not just prepared to make a record, the record is actually being made. Have you ever even looked at [[Wikipedia:Deletion log]]? You'll find EVERY deletion of the past three weeks there, with the justification given.
Since it is such a rich resource for good articles perhaps it might extend back beyond 3 weeks and include an easy way to recover the text, small though it may be.
I find returning to Wikipedia and finding articles deleted (and unrecoverable) quite unpleasant.
I just need to remember to "watch" any short articles I guess.
And I find coming to Wikipedia and seeing an article called "Bronx Zoo" with as its text "the zoo in the bronx" quite unpleasant.
A close case...the Bronx Zoo will be an article, but much more extensive than that. Many deletions are of titles that will never make an article, I would probably prefer titles that will remain, but we all have talked extensively of that, I think without any real referent in experience other than anecdotal, thus unconclusively. I guess what would suffice is to ensure that somewhere, for example, in this case, in perhaps the article on New York City, an empty link remains to [[Bronx Zoo]], just as a pointer to encourage an article.
Fred