joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu wrote:
Yes, at this point inclusionism is dead and
eventualism is a heresy. If enough
editors try and get WP:EPISODE's guideline status removed then one
could go DRV
all of these. I'm about to go on vacation and haven't been willing to
attempt to
do so in the past because of lack of success but if enough people
actually agree
with me there's no need not to try. This is really destroying a lot of content
and the GFDL issue pointed out by Derksen doesn't help matters at all
(although
that's more easily corretable)
I rarely get involved in policy disputes, but this does seem like a hill
worth dying on - I've done some more looking around and the amount of
material being removed in this particular purge is enormous. It also
seems to be heavily driven by just a handful of editors - the same
usernames keep popping up in the histories. I guess it's been gotten
away with so far because there hasn't actually been deleting going on
for the most part, just redirecting.
I notice now that an arbitration case has been filed on this subject;
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Episodes_and_characters>.
Haven't had time to read through it all yet.
I'm going to go on vacation in a few days myself, unfortunately, but
I'll still have net access. Anyone more policy-savvy than I have
suggestions on how I should go about tossing my hat into this fight?