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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by passivepinetree on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:44PM (#13978766)
This seems like something worth protesting about/trying to stop, but I'm not finding any sources for the "40% of Wikipedia is under threat" claim made by the headline.

The article mostly discusses a stub that was marked for deletion by one of many users who seem to pride themselves on deleting articles.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by mikeyouse on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:52PM (#13978858)
The 40% figure comes from ~2 million stub articles out of ~5.3 million total on English-language Wikipedia.
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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by passivepinetree on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:53PM (#13978871)
Interesting, thanks.

So they're just claiming all stubs (and no "full" articles) are in danger of deletion from these deletionists?

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:10PM (#13979060)
Unfortunately, Boing Boing loves sensationalistic headlines that turn out to be unsupported by data.
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