[WikiEN-l] Spam:Re: Deletionism fails to serve the readers

MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 16:55:47 UTC 2007


On 6/11/07, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/06/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:08:39 +0100, "James Farrar"
> > <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> In the end, we are all both deletionists and inclusionists.
> > >Only if you're redefining those two terms away from how they're
> commonly used.
> >
> > Not really, no.  I think it's a false dichotomy.  The continuum has
> > extremes, but most people lie away from the extremes.
>
> Right, but the terms describe the extremes. Representing those in the
> middle as belonging to both extremes is absurd.


There are middle ways which is why there is such a term as mergists and that
association with the incredibly long name I have an infobox for. I'm
particularly careful not to fall into extremes.

Mgm


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