[WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Fri Jul 31 20:15:17 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> My own take on the deletionist/inclusionist divide (which,
> admittedly, has little if anything to do with Wikipedia's
> inclusion policies as currently prescribed) is to ask: would
> anyone, anywhere in the world (other than the author) ever be
> interested in reading an encyclopedic treatment of this topic?
> (And in the case of Bo the first dog, the answer is pretty
> clearly "yes".)
>

I recently checked Wikipedia for an article on my local library, and found
that it was deleted.  If Wikipedia isn't "too" deletionist, then it's
"improperly" deletionist.

C'mon, a library isn't notable?


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