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

Tue Sep 13 17:29:40 UTC 2005

>From: Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com>
>
>Deleting encyclopedic articles harms the encyclopedia.

If only it were easy to decide what articles are "encyclopedic".

>Just because a
>"consensus" of professional deletionists decide that some article or
>another isn't "notable" doesn't make it unencyclopedic.

This kind of partisan language is completely unhelpful.

Jay.