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

[Ray Saintonge]

James Farrar wrote:

>On 11/06/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:08:39 +0100, "James Farrar" wrote:
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>>>>In the end, we are all both deletionists and inclusionists.
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>>>Only if you're redefining those two terms away from how they're commonly used.
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>>Not really, no.  I think it's a false dichotomy.  The continuum has
>>extremes, but most people lie away from the extremes.
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>Right, but the terms describe the extremes. Representing those in the
>middle as belonging to both extremes is absurd.
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That's an extreme interpretation.  While I am primarily inclusionist by 
temperament, that doesn't mean that there is absolutely nothing that I 
would not delete.  I tend to regard the statement as tautological.

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