[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 10/3/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Actually, there is one in there that strikes me as valid: the shield-mate
>> one. I know I've read about the idea before in multiple contexts, and
>> there's the obvious historical example of the Sacred Band. I don't know if
>> it's *correct*, and it looks like no one has ventured into academia for some
>> sources so deletion is likely, but that's far from a clear case.
>>     
>
> Ok, here's a hypothetical. Let's say out of any twenty given AfD's
> that close as "delete", it turns out we get one "wrong". Is that
> acceptable? Deletion is hardly the end of the world in itself...
>
>   

How about I raise you one and say we might have got
*two* wrong out of 20?

Personally I am on the fence about the article about
replicas of the White House. Most likely the decision
to delete is valid, but it is very certainly a threshold
case.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen