[WikiEN-l] Why changing the deletion process is a bad idea

Tue Sep 13 17:04:13 UTC 2005

Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:20:12 -0500
From: Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Why changing the deletion
process is a bad
	idea
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
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Deleting encyclopedic articles harms the encyclopedia.
 Just because a
"consensus" of professional deletionists decide that
some article or
another isn't "notable" doesn't make it
unencyclopedic.  See
Snowspinner's post that started this iteration of this
discussion.

Kelly

Then exactly the same applies to deletion of links.
This proves that if there is a well-organised mob
opinion claiming to be a consensus, that a link isn't
notable while an opposing one is, to argue with that
view and reinstate the link for balance's sake is not
"link spam" or a blocking offence. Least of all is it
grounds for an admin-imposed block without any due
processes,followed by a permanent block for the
offence of claiming to have any rights against it.

So Kelly has here proved conclusively that I was
abused, and is proposing that Wiki's functioning
pattern should incorporate that proof. 

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