[WikiEN-l] Inclusionists vs deletionists

[Tom Morris]

On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 19:34, WereSpielChequers wrote:

> Inclusionism and deletionism are a spectrum not a binary choice, wherever
> you are on that spectrum there will be editors who are more deletionist or
> more inclusionist than yourself. The closer you are to one end of the
> spectrum the more likely it is that you will think that the other end of
> the spectrum is dominant.
> 
> Which is a longwinded way of sadly saying no, in fact it's very much the
> opposite. Deletion debates generally attract deletionists, especially as
> the inclusionists have to take more time the more potential sources they
> can check.


I think that's probably a bit too broad-brushed too. Certain types of deletion debates tend to have no reference to -isms, because there's an understood and clearly applicable standard. On English Wikipedia, look at WikiProject Football, where they have a pretty clear notability standard (NFOOTY) such that most deletions aren't that contentious.

As an admin who closes a fair few AfDs, and as a human being who isn't a big fan of loudmouthed ideological posturing, I have to say that I rather like such topic areas. 

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Tom Morris
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