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

[J. Bryant Evans]

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[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Farrar
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 10:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Spam:Re: Deletionism fails to serve the readers

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.

I think we're getting close to playing semantics. Labeling as one or the
other is likely unwise. But still in the middle, a person can sometimes act
in either a deletionist or inclusionist mode. So in that sense, Guy is
right.

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