2009/1/3 Phil Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
This should be required reading - it completely upends fundamental assumptions about our content, and has huge implications for things like deletion. The sense that our inclusion and notability policies put us at odds with readers who are not major parts of the community has always been there, but this troublingly nails it: the population of people who write articles and people who delete them are nearly exclusive.
That's a huge issue.
We've know this for over a year. The counter is the question of if it holds true for new articles where most deletion actually takes place.