[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, now you've given me another guess: The problem with PWD is that it's
> wrong to have deleted material available for people to look at because that
> would encourage them to look at deleted content rather than undeleted
> material?

(I haven't read the PWD proposal, but it seems self-explanatory.)

Deletion is good because it totally dispenses with junk. Average
article quality goes up when we ditch bad articles. It prevents people
from spending time on really bad articles. Having deleted articles
readily available would interfere with all that. There are places on
the internet for all kinds of junk, regardless of quality or value.
Wikipedia is not one.

Steve