On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 19:34, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Inclusionism and deletionism are a spectrum not a binary choice, wherever > you are on that spectrum there will be editors who are more deletionist or > more inclusionist than yourself. The closer you are to one end of the > spectrum the more likely it is that you will think that the other end of > the spectrum is dominant. > > Which is a longwinded way of sadly saying no, in fact it's very much the > opposite. Deletion debates generally attract deletionists, especially as > the inclusionists have to take more time the more potential sources they > can check.
I think that's probably a bit too broad-brushed too. Certain types of deletion debates tend to have no reference to -isms, because there's an understood and clearly applicable standard. On English Wikipedia, look at WikiProject Football, where they have a pretty clear notability standard (NFOOTY) such that most deletions aren't that contentious. As an admin who closes a fair few AfDs, and as a human being who isn't a big fan of loudmouthed ideological posturing, I have to say that I rather like such topic areas. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
