On 13 April 2013 23:42, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/13/13, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My basic observation here is that inclusionism/deletionism debates >> seem intractable, like religion and politics, which have long been >> correlated with a variety of mental and neurological observations and >> this deep-seated roots of those beliefs seems to explain why politics >> is so wasteful and damaging; hence the obvious question becomes, is >> inclusionism/deletionism another such case? > I think there is actually a sensible middle ground, which gets lost > because those with more extreme views are more vocal. That is similar > to politics in a way. And why would you think that > inclusionism/deletionism debates are intractable? I thought the idea > that such terms should be avoided (as they are divisive) was taking > hold and gaining ground? I'm broadly an inclusionist, but by crikey there's a lot of utter, utter shit on the wiki. I've been nominating hopeless shite lately, for AFD or even just PROD. Not much, you understand. I can give it up any time. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
