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