User talk:The Cunctator/Deletionism

I have never considered myself a "deletionist"... -- Cyan 01:22, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I think some of the deletionism is a reaction to the increasing inflow of junk (probably not increasing in percentage, just in absolute numbers). It's easier and faster to create nonsense articles than factual ones, plus it's fun and there are no penalties for doing so. Some of the VfD victims were totally legit, they just didn't have many Google hits or were misspelled. Another part of the deletionistic tendency I think stems from a sense that WP is woefully incomplete in many places; time spent on obscure Michael Jordan #1293 is time taken away from, say, radiochemistry. Realistically of course, the person researching #1293 is probably not a radiochemist and wouldn't be able to add to it anyway. I suspect that when all the basic topics are well-covered, the more obscure people are all going to start seeming more "encyclopedic", because that's all that will be left for the Wikipediholics to work on. :-) Stan 06:25, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

You know, this wise, wikiloving attitude is just one more reason I look up to Cunctator as a wiki-arhat. You capture the senselessness of deletionism in a nonpaper wiki precisely. For me, the question is not "is the subject notable?" but "do we say what is worth saying about the subject?" -- Grace Note