On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 charles.r.matthews 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.
Why should our
behaviour as a top-ten site change from the behaviour
that got us there? The faults that you list did not suddenly spring-up
when we became a top-ten site. They have all scaled up very well, but
that was always predictable.
Ec