Aha! I have *finally* laid hands on an articulate, sane, deletionist who might, possibly, be willing to talk to me.
I don't get it. What's the point of deletionism? You say "fewer but better" -- but what's actually happening is that energy that could be put into "better" is being spent on deletion fights, and it seems like most of the articles I go there to read are carrying the dreaded "deletion" tag.
I understand the point of "better", of course; what's the point of "fewer"? Wikipedia is online, and volunteer-written, and does not have the constraints of paper encyclopedias.
Feel free to take it to email if you think a private discussion would go better; I'm trivially easy to find, have had the same email since 1999 now roughly. And of course I can't compel you to discuss it at all. I'm hoping there's some kind of point to the other side that I could maybe actually understand, really I am.
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I don't get it. What's the point of deletionism? You say "fewer but better" -- but what's actually happening is that energy that could be put into "better" is being spent on deletion fights, and it seems like most of the articles I go there to read are carrying the dreaded "deletion" tag.
I understand the point of "better", of course; what's the point of "fewer"? Wikipedia is online, and volunteer-written, and does not have the constraints of paper encyclopedias.
Feel free to take it to email if you think a private discussion would go better; I'm trivially easy to find, have had the same email since 1999 now roughly. And of course I can't compel you to discuss it at all. I'm hoping there's some kind of point to the other side that I could maybe actually understand, really I am.