[WikiEN-l] The new non-stupid wiki-en thread

[Daniel P. B. Smith]

> From: "David Ashby" <humble.fool at gmail.com>
>
> On 11/27/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, anyone greatly improved an article lately?
>>
>> Steve
>
> I've deleted about 50 or so articles, does that count?
>
> -humblefool

Arlo Guthrie tells a story about how his wife told him she had  
cleaned up a stack of magazines in the garage. The next day, he says  
"I was in the garage, and those magazines weren't 'cleaned,' they're  
_gone._" His wife replies, "Well, you can't get much cleaner than  
'gone.'"

Like the apocryphal story of Michelangelo saying "I just cut away  
everything that didn't look like David," the negative space of  
deleted articles shapes the positive space that looks like an  
encyclopedia.