On 6/11/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote: I really don't know what the AfD deletionist community is about, but it's not about improving Wikipedia if articles are vandalized to make them eligible for deletion, if topics found in every major encyclopedia out there are up for deletion, and if improving an article that is up for deletion makes the nominating editors hostile towards you. But none of that is about improving an encyclopedia.
Well, I consider myself a deletionist-leaning Wikipedian, but I can assure you that many deletionist Wikipedians don't operate or think that way. This is a relatively recent phenomenon; incidents of article vandalism and incivility towards those who make an article worth keeping were quite rare a year or two ago. Many old-school deletionists focus just as much on writing articles as they do on discussing their deletion.
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