[WikiEN-l] Deleting over 45000 items

[Anthony]

On 6/20/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> [[Wikipedia_talk:Spoiler]]
>
> Is it really fair to delete 45000 spoiler warnings and claim that the failure to
> undelete them is "consensus"?  (Especially when it turns out there actually
> were hundreds restored, but they kept getting deleted anyway)
>
No, absolutely not, just as it isn't fair to add 45000 spoiler
warnings and claim that the failure to delete them is "consensus".

> This is not the dead issue people have claimed it is, and 45000 is just the
> last number anyone's bothered to count.  It seems blatantly obvious to me
> that nobody's going to be able to restore 45000 spoiler warnings; deleting
> them is easy, but restoring one is impossible without reading the whole
> article to figure out where the right place for them is.  Particularly
> without AWB-like software.  And creating "consensus" by unilaterally making
> an impossible-to-reverse mass change should disturb anyone, regardless of
> their opinion on spoiler warnings.

"Creating consensus through unilateral action" doesn't disturb me, but
saying that an issue as contested as spoiler warnings has a consensus
for any particular position does.