On 31/08/06, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
I often go back to an article, and half of it is just *gone*, and sometimes the information quoted names, dates etc. etc.. The information can be usually checked with 10 seconds flat using google. But there's *no* requirement to do even a half-assed check. And they're completely within their rights to do that, in fact it's POLICY THAT YOU CAN DO IT AT ANY TIME. The remaining article typically ends up biased of course. They just deleted stuff they didn't agree with, or 'sounded wrong'.
They really should be putting it on the talk page.
Leave a gentle note to that effect on the talk page of the user (you catch more flies with honey than vinegar), restoring the deletia to the talk page of the article.
I'm considering going postal and go on a rampage through the wikipedia arbitrarily deleting stuff; you know, entire articles, paragraphs, sentences. It's not vandalism if it's a POLICY, right? ;-)
Sorry, that's covered by [[WP:POINT]] ;-)
- d.