[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Sage Ross<ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM, geni<geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2009/7/14 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>>>> Are you saying the numbers could go negative?? Contraction in real-terms? :-/
>>>>
>>>> Carcharoth
>>>
>>> It's happened at least once. Long term it would be unlikely since most
>>> deletions are of new articles.
>>
>> Was that when the faulty bot-created algae articles were deleted?
>> There were about 4000, so that would definitely be a net negative day
>> if they were deleted at once.
>
> As geni has confirmed, it seems that was the one.
>
> Maybe it is time for another comedy scene depicting the first day of
> the wiki and the nascent conflict between deletionism and
> inclusionism?
>
> Anyone remember where the old humour piece is?

Sideshow, sideshow only, remember.

Then back to the main thread.

Carcharoth