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Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by jacques_chester on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @09:06PM (#4913757)
OK, maybe I set the bar too high.

But it's currently far, far too low.

That any small gang of weirdos can get pages deleted is bazonkers. And given the rise of deletionism it's easy to round up a deletion posse for damn near anything.

It needs to be harder to delete. The Library-of-Babel examples[1] you give would still be deleted even if the bar were higher.

[1] http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.htm...

Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by tptacek on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @09:09PM (#4913771)
How many of those examples do you think are unrealistic?

Also, do words mean specific things to you, or are you just trying to communicate how article deletion makes you feel? Because when you call Wikipedia a "lie" that has "inverted the premise" and "ratched the door shut" on contributors, you should know that's not only false, but trivially falsifiable.

Here's how:

1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed

2. Sort by "Oldest"

3. Set a filter on articles by "new editors".

4. Notice how there are tens of thousands of them.