[WikiEN-l] Pointless deletions

Tony Sidaway f.crdfa at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 20:41:12 UTC 2006


On 1/18/06, Brock Batsell <wikipedia at theskeptik.com> wrote:
>  How
> much effort did explaining this undeletion and enforcing it require
> with regard to its reward (one article is undeleted that should not
> have been deleted)?

Two articles.  Not much effort as it was obviously a case of bad deletions

>  Wouldn't this time have been better spent
> advocating a change in the written policy that led to its deletion,

No.  Policy is what happens, not what is written down.  The policy in
this case, which will always be unwritten, is that we don't delete an
article without a very good reason.



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