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

[David Gerard]

On 14 April 2013 14:29, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.


I'll also note that I suspect opening up article creation to anons
again will be impossible within the community - because they actually
wanted to lock it down even further, and the Foundation stepped in and
said "no, keep it open".


- d.