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
<http://tommorris.org/>