--- "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
As someone said in #wikipedia the other day: "the deletionists go around deleting stuff; the inclusionists just whinge on wikien-l about how bad it is." So: stop complaining, and start telling people *why* they need to be kept.
Unfortunately the greek chorus of deleters all group around chanting ''delete, delete delete. Begone you nasty template'' like something out of Lord of the Flies.
And they don't like anyone saying 'Hold on a minute'. You get the image they all turn around and mutter in unison: did someone dare speak on our page? How dare he? He isn't one of us.' lol
Notifying the creator/last editor of such templates would be a Polite Thing To Do. But no, it's far easier to subst: and {{d}} something, because that way you can get away with it.
I'm beginning to think they do it that way in the hope people who might disagree with them won't notice.
When recently a whole blitz of Irish templates were put up for deletion by the one user (He seemed to be having one of his 'and today I will wipe out Ireland' moods) I dared to contact Irish users to suggest they look at the proposed deletions. One of the deleters went beserck. How DARE I "spam" users to tell them about the deletions. She went on and on and on and on in the "How dare I" rant in message after message. Obviously users are meant to have psychic powers to know that she and her colleagues had now picked Irish templates for wipeout. And for daring to disrupt the smooth running of deletions by bring aliens who might vote 'no' onto the page. (She made snide comments about how they were all doing my bidding when they dared disagree with her.) she promptly nominated a another template I had created on the page even though WP was perfectly happy with it and using it all over!!!
The Deletioners and their antics makes Lord of the Flies sound positively heavenly.
Thom
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