Ray Saintonge wrote
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The war is between two competing visions of Wikipedia.
One side, the
"deletionists", believes in deleting material which they consider to be
diminishing the reputation and authoritative quality of Wikipedia. The
other side, the "inclusionists", believes that the purposes of Wikipedia
are better served by having articles in an ever expanding sphere of
knowledge defined in the broadest terms, even if it is in subjects that
others may find trivial. I am clearly in the latter camp.
I was fairly neutral about this - believing that the trivia/ephemera/popular
culture stuff is pretty harmless in its place. Until a recent VfD
experience, that was, with a mathematical article where the 'keeps' really
couldn't know why the content was objectionable, and precisely 'diminishing'
to WP. So there is more to it, and I have a beef with the 'radical'
inclusionist stand (not with the Power Rangers completists).
Charles