[WikiEN-l] Deletionism

[James Hare]

ASSUMPTION OF BAD FAITH ALERT!

Holy Jimbo I don't think I've ever seen such malice towards a group of
contributors (well, then again, I *do* intentionally avoid dramatic areas).
Just because someone likes deleting things doesn't mean they have a personal
security complex where they must satisfy themselves with the destruction of
other people's work. If you are an inclusionist, how would you like it if
someone said that inclusionists want to see Wikipedia fill up with crap? Or
if you are a mergist, how would you like it if someone said that you want to
see Wikipedia articles be astronomical in size to the point no one can read
them or edit them?

As David Gerard said, "working with people you believe are idiots is NOT
OPTIONAL." If we are going to make this work, we have to work together and
fight the real enemies: ignorance and closed content. We are fighting this
by making a freely-distributable encyclopedia.

On 1/4/07, zero 0000 <nought_0000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: "The Cunctator" <cunctator at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Thousands of *awful* articles on websites
> > To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
> > Message-ID:
> >       <dfd0b40701030958l119eb62dgd51274d0013cce4a at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > It's a perfectly fine, non-biased article that is hurting NOONE by
> > its existence and represents real effort by the contributors. Why
> > does it need to be deleted? WHY?
>
> I agree 101%.  Deletionism seems to be a sort of mental disease.
> Why do these people get so much pleasure from deleting articles
> that are doing nobody any harm and are potentially helping
> someone?  Do they squash ants for fun too?
>
> Zero.
>
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