[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

[Surreptitiousness]

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Steve Bennett wrote:
>   
>> On 10/3/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  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...
>>
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> How about I raise you one and say we might have got
> *two* wrong out of 20?
Most of these are *currently* listed for deletion rather than actually 
deleted.