> Why do you never hear complaints from inclusionists about Star Wars > articles being deleted? Because so many were deleted that the involved > editors finally bit the bullet and escaped to Wikia, and the only ones > that are left are either ones onboard with rigid constrictive policies > or have seen their efforts fail and learned to comply with the current > regime. What happened with Star Wars could be said of many of the > Wikias. (One of the more amusing Wikipedia conspiracy theories I've > seen is that Wales & Angela deliberately encouraged or let En slide > towards deletionism because it provided a demand for his Wikia > startup. I doubt they intended any such thing, but the effect was the > same.) . > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net
Jimbo and Angela did not play a significant role in debates over inclusion and deletion; it just happens that people with a passion for a subject treasure every detail which makes for a good wikia wiki. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
