[WikiEN-l] Deleting over 45000 items

[Brock Weller]

The first one made us look silly and the second one made us encyclopedic? My
earlier post sums this up fairly well.

On 6/20/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Anthony 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".
>
> The spoiler warnings were added individually, by people creating articles
> and
> specifically deciding where a spoiler warning goes in that article.  The
> spoiler warnings were deleted en masse by one or two people using
> automation
> software without reading the articles they were in.
>
> You don't see any difference between these two activities?
>
>
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-Brock