[WikiEN-l] Proposed: stop all deletions from 6 months, then reconsider

[Bjorn Lindqvist]

> > [...] The ''deletionists'' against ''inclusionists'' argument is 
> > utterly bogus. It is a case of those who take the idea that wikipedia 
> > as an encyclopedia seriously and basic standards below which an 
> > article is deleted and those who see wikipedia as some sort of 
> > scribblebox where any sort of rubbish, not matter how bad, has a 
> > 'right' to be left undisturbed.
> 
> ...nor that we want to mischaracterize legitimate positions in the most
> extreme terms possible, or insult our opponents. Is there anybody else
> here foolhardy enough to claim that I don't take the idea of Wikipedia
> as an encyclopedia seriously?

I have a new not-rule:

Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia

Meaning that atleast my wish for the project is for it not to become
just another Britannica. Encyclopedias was for yesterdays folks. We've
fooled JTDRL for long enough.

BL