On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 7:41:31 +0000, <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
wrote:
I don't accept the framing. As far as I'm
concerned, a deletion is an assertion that the topic is unwelcome. In other words that no
useful stub can be made. Not that _no useful stub can be made out of the words on the
page_. I'm sure we used to be better at this.
Maybe we did, back when we had fewer than two million articles and
fewer than a million users, and were not a top-ten site making us an
essential part of any vanity, spam or POV-pushing campaign.
Guy (JzG)
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