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Anthere wrote:
Actually, I *feel* there is a deletion spree going on
on meta, which I
find most inappropriate. It seems slowly, the goal of meta, what is
acceptable over there is changing and I am not sure at all I like these
changes.
Recently for example, someone listed one of my articles, which had been
there for more than 2 years, listed under humour and essay. I had to
move it as a subpage of mine to avoid it being deleted. The reason given
to delete it was "rant and non encyclopedic"
Since WHEN do we have to write only encyclopedic and reasonably boring
stuff on meta ?
It is not really surprising me that a birth project got deleted or
threatened of deletion as well.
Meanwhile, there is a lot of crap still there, and people are delighted
listing themselves under "wikipedians who went to tagadaschtroumpf
college and wear 56 size pink shoes with a yellow hat".
What escape me is "what harm does humour and essays on meta when the
essays are not insulting anyone ?"
What escape me is "why are some people trying to make meta a really
clean and boring place" while it is supposed to be first of all a place
for all of us to work together and possibly relax a bit from the stress
of the projects ?
What escape me is "why trying to keep the place absolutely clean when it
is only a personal site ?"
I would like to recall something I read on meatball a long time ago.
A wiki is a public place, and as all public places, editors are required
to follow strict rules. Such as in wikipedia, writing only stuff that is
encyclopedic and neutral. This causes stress.
It is very important to reserve personal place to editors so that they
can let themselves go beyond the rules of the public places. Such as
being biaised or putting some political rant.
Meta is such a place, where we can also share some funny and
constructive moments; this also builds the community. And when editors
feel confortable, they also join the fun and put new important proposal.
It does mean that meta should host full projects of course, but it is
WITHIN meta role to host projects which some poeple are trying to set up.
Such projects should not "survive" deletion. They should NOT be on votes
for deletion.
Ihmo.
Or... let's create another meta to really brainstorm on.
Ant
meta is a Wiki about Wikipedia. It's not Wikipedia. It's about
Wikipedia, Wikipedians, and MediaWiki. It has pages, not articles. No
deletions should be taking place like this. There doesn't need to be VFD
on meta at all.
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