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

[Fred Bauder]

> Looking more at this, it seems that Wales has been given "credit" for
> exactly this intervention:
>
> "Wales has, in the past, instructed Wikimedia's system administrators to
> implement software changes that constitute de facto Wikipedia policy
> changes. For instance, in December 2005, in response to the Seigenthaler
> incident, Wales removed the ability of unregistered users to create new
> pages on the English-language Wikipedia. This change was proposed as an
> "experiment", but has been in place ever since."
>
> 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".

Together with the Arbitration Committee Jimbo initiated the Biographies
of living persons policy. His involvement in deletion was with respect to
pseudo-scientific physics theories.

Fred