[WikiEN-l] Deletionism fails to serve the readers

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:59:49 -0400, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dammit, I *hate* it when people mis-characterize the [[Sonia Greene]] thing. Like I told the Wired guy as well, Valrith didn't blank and redirect to H. P. Lovecraft because Sonia wasn't notable, he did it because the entire article was a tissue of multiple copyvios and there wasn't any material to be preserved or anything else that could be done (neither he nor I were Greene experts).

It would not be the first time someone had misrepresented the reason
for removal of content on a subject they like.

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