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This whole controversy wouldn't even have happened if Wikipedia wasn't controlled by Deletionists. Maybe this will be the help the Wikipedia community needs to

This whole controversy wouldn't even have happened if Wikipedia wasn't controlled by Deletionists. Maybe this will be the help the Wikipedia community needs to take a step back and be a little more relaxed about inclusion. To quote Paul Graham on the subject, Deletionists are "constrained by print-era thinking." There is no harm in allowing a large number of articles that people don't frequently read, and being quick to delete articles does have harmful side effects, as evidenced by this case.

dTal 8y ago
The worst is it's inconsistently applied. Some trivial topics are covered to the point of absurdity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_(Sesame_Street) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_(Sesame_Street) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_(Sesame_Street) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_(Sesame_Street) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_and_Ernie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_and_Ernie