On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:59 PM, stevertigo<[email protected]> wrote: > The stable concept of "deletionism" isn't anything more than the > waste management principle: 'any organism needs a waste removal > system.' A fairly basic and agreeable idea. After that, "inclusionism" > sort of became a misnomer - few disagree that all subjects need to be > 'included' - the disagreements deal with how they are treated. > Eventualism and integrationism sort of came along a bit later, and > these are the acually operant philosophies today.
I've found I've changed over the last 4 or 5 years that I've been on WP. When I first joined a fought against the deletion of an unremarkable street because my thought was "isn't it amazing that someone can find their *own* street* on Wikipedia! It will inspire editors because if people can find their own street they'll go WOW! and want to join in and add to this remarkable project." Now, more experienced and more cynical, I view Wikipedia as an increasingly large carpet that multitudes want to urinate on... with no growth in the number of cleaners. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
