[WikiEN-l] Deletionism fails to serve the readers

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:14:56 +1000, Mark Gallagher
<m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

>AfD and RC Patrol and Wikiproject Spam and those CVU people and so on 
>seem to have taken a different view of spam.  Remember when we had 
>biased articles and said, "Time to rewrite this to be more neutral"? 
>Remember when we said to those who wanted to have articles about their 
>companies or whatnot in Wikipedia and we said, "Good authors are always 
>welcome, just don't step out of line, punk"?

Yup.  You know what changed? Two million plus articles and a top ten
ranking.  Now we are the target of choice for vanity, spam and all
manner of self-serving crap, and we are not so short of articles or
editors that we get much back from the transaction.

Guy (JzG)
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