& the actual result is a good example of how policy is actually made & should be made--by compromise and shift of consensus at AfD. The one who said hell no still say hell no, but consensus no longer follows that. See a current one (July 9) at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bushland_High_School
On 7/10/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:10:03 -0700, "George Herbert" george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
As one of the inclusionists willing to compromise on this issue, I object to that. There were plenty enough people in the middle for a compromise to work. The rhetoric from the extremist-seeming deletionists sunk the various compromise attempts time and time again.
Sorry, but that's not how I remember it. The lengthy debate over [[WP:SCHOOLS]] was torpedoed mainly by a small number of people who flatly refused to consider anything other than "all schools are inherently notable". No merge was acceptable, no deletion was acceptable, however atrocious the article, they stated as an article of faith that every school merited an article.
I don't recall a *single* deletionist raising any argument that was as dogmatic as those raised by the few militant inclusionists.
Guy (JzG)
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