[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

[Charles Matthews]

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:48:53 +0000, Carcharoth wrote:
>
>   
>> Some people think junk isn't junk. Or rather, one's person's junk is
>> another person's treasure. Not that obscure articles that can be
>> rescued are really treasure, but you get the point.
>>     
>
> Yes... case in point, when you do a New York Times archive search for 
> "comic books" in the range 1851-1980, you turn up this article from 
> 1955:
>
> NORWICH, Conn., Feb. 26 (UP) -- The American Legion Auxiliary carried 
> out a "very successful" two-hour drive today to rid the city of 
> objectionable comic books...
>
> and right next to it, this one from 1972:
>
> Yale Students Feast on Rare Comic Books Under Glass 
> NEW HAVEN, May 12 -- The display of an extensive collection of comic 
> books from the nineteen-thirties through the fifties has unexpectedly 
> proved to be the most popular exhibition within recent memory at Yale 
> University....
>
> (Other articles on the first page of results vary from ones 
> describing comic-book burnings in the 1940s and 1950s to ones 
> describing comic book conventions and the escalating value of rare 
> comics in the 1960s and 1970s.)
>
>   
A propos, let's not lose sight of one key factor in deleting/reviving 
articles. If the topic as a whole lacks good references, the attempted 
article may rightly be deleted; and then when there are better 
references a proper article may be created, at some later point. This is 
_not_ an argument that the article should not have been deleted in the 
first place. It is a feature, not a bug, in other words.

Charles