[WikiEN-l] Pointless deletions

[Ray Saintonge]

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>On 1/18/06, Brock Batsell <wikipedia at theskeptik.com> wrote:
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>> How
>>much effort did explaining this undeletion and enforcing it require
>>with regard to its reward (one article is undeleted that should not
>>have been deleted)?
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>Two articles.  Not much effort as it was obviously a case of bad deletions
>  
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>> Wouldn't this time have been better spent
>>advocating a change in the written policy that led to its deletion,
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>No.  Policy is what happens, not what is written down.  The policy in
>this case, which will always be unwritten, is that we don't delete an
>article without a very good reason.
>
Good policy reflects practice, not the other way around.  The policy 
becomes a codification of what works.

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