[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[Ryan Delaney]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:14 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/22 Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com>:
>
>> You probably won't be getting that evidence, since the way the policy
>> is in place, the burden of proof isn't on the person removing the
>> content-- it's on the person adding it. That's not just how BLP works,
>> but the verifiability policy as well, and that's a Good Thing(tm). If
>> people want to add content to Wikipedia, they ought to be providing
>> sources for it. We're somewhat lax about enforcing that when it's
>> inanimate objects, but we aren't lax about it when we're talking about
>> real people. That seems to me to be the right balance.
>
>
> It does really suck that this is trashing what are mostly likely
> perfectly okay pieces that people put work into. This needs to be
> acknowledged and we need to work to alleviate the suck from it.
>
> the_wub's list will help recover stuff, and hopefully things will
> proceed in a less axe-crazy manner henceforth.
>

I agree, it does suck a lot. In this case, as in so many others, the
suck is a direct and inevitable result of the deletion system.

Repeat after me: Pure Wiki Deletion.

- causa sui