[WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

[David Gerard]

On 14 April 2013 14:21, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> We have Wales to "thank" for the absurd "Articles for Creation" process (Is
> that still around?  I haven't checked in a long time.).  Seems to me that
> constitutes a "significant role in debates over inclusion deletion".


Only by a stretch. I'd call it an argument against top-down
intervention. There is no such thing as rescue by magic, and berating
someone for failing to do the impossible strikes me as pointless.
Pretty much everything that's fucked up about Wikipedia is emergent
behaviour of people being a problem, and top-down magic can't possibly
scale to fix that. It can cripple it, though.


- d.