[WikiEN-l] Deletionism fails to serve the readers

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>In the end, we are all both deletionists and inclusionists.  If we did
>not want to include content, we would not be here but we all decide
>that some things are too trivial to have an article, despite the fact
>that they can be verified (the bus stop at the end of my road, for
>example, has at least three separate sources for its existence, but is
>utterly unremarkable in every meaningful respect).
>
>In the differences between personal definitions of what is "too
>trivial" lie the great wars of AfD.
>
Fair enough, but the lack of patience and social skills by some editors 
also plays a big role in this.  If you begin the deletion process for 
that bus stop by calling the contributor an idiot or innundating him 
with bureaucratic links you are bound to get a negative reaction.  There 
then follows a flood of wasted debate.

If there is any expectation that the editor will be around it is worth 
starting a personal dialogue.  If he is a flash in the pan who happened 
to add something on a momentary impulse and be gone in a short time, 
waiting a while to remove trivial but harmless material will help to 
avoid the most pointless arguments.

Ec