[WikiEN-l] I suppose we had to see this news story soon enough

[Anthony]

On 10/26/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/10/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/wr_nm/wikipedia_people_dc_1
>
> Wow! An accurate an well written article about Wikipedia. Now I really
> have seen everything! ;)
>
> The only minor thing I would disagree with is that 1,300 admins (or
> whatever it is now) isn't really a "small group", and it does make it
> sound like it's admins making the deletion decisions rather than the
> community.

Admins do make the deletion decisions, they just do so after "the
community" comments.

I think the more serious error in that paragraph is that it says that
this situation is a change stemming from "a series of incidents".
Adminship is nothing new, nor is deletion or page protection.  Even
deletion based on alleged lack of notability isn't all that new.  It's
been around at least since the deletion of the 9/11 victims.