[WikiEN-l] Afd nominations

Tue Oct 4 09:03:48 UTC 2005

Ray Saintonge

>I agree that most things won't  draw such a debate, and even if a lot of
>the articles proposed for deletions really are deletable there is still
>that small obsessive group determined to preserve our "bodily humours"
>in the manner of Dr. Strangelove.  They need to be more sensitive to the
>efforts of others, and to understand that many of these most bitter
>disputes are not about what's in the articles, but about a small group
>that wants to control the work of others.

Yes. The opposed groups are not "inclusionists" versus deletionists,
but *contributors* versus deletionists. (This is still the case even
though the deletionists contribute elsewhere.) Then the deletionists
wonder why the contributors get so damn stroppy.

- d.