[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[Ken Arromdee]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Adam Koenigsberg wrote:
> I oppose this mass deletion but support the theory behind it, that is to
> say, I would support this deletion criteria but believe this to be out of
> process. Being Bold doesn't extend to administrator tools, IMHO. This
> reminds me of the Userbox mass deletion fiasco of January 2006, see
> RFC/Kelly Martin

It reminds me of spoiler warnings.  It's amazing just how much spoiler
warnings turned out to be a template for all sorts of...  suboptimal...
activities.  Once you delete tens of thousands of things, you've won,
regardless of whether you've followed the rules or not.