[WikiEN-l] I despair

[Guettarda]

On 4/15/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:06:45 -0400, Jeff Raymond
> <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
>
> >I think we're leaning too far toward the "shoot first" mentality,
> >honestly, and when it results in a complete deletion, that's a problem.
> >  Remove possibly libellious commentary?  Okay.  Make no effort on
> >sourcing while doing it?  Not as comfortable.  Delete the article
> >entirely instead of stubbing it?  Certainly not okay in my mind.
>
> In this case the stub was a single sentence which included a false
> claim.  So that didn't work.  And that was done by a very good editor,
> too, so it's not his fault, the problem is that the source for the
> claim, which is not a good one, is flatly contradicted by the subject.
> In a conflict between a poor source and a flat denial by the subject,
> the subject wins.


I suppose one alternative is to delete the versions with offending content
(presumably that
would be all of them) and recreate the article as a redirect.  It doesn't
prevent someone from recreating the offending content, but neither does
deletion.