[WikiEN-l] Deleting over 45000 items

[The Cunctator]

You really shouldn't pretend that your opinion is an incontrovertible fact.

On 6/20/07, Brock Weller <brock.weller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > WikiEN-l mailing list
> > WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
> >
>
>
>
> --
> -Brock
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
>