An even better summary is that inclusionism and deletionism never existed as actual genuine philosophies. They began because a person early in the project who

An even better summary is that inclusionism and deletionism never existed as actual genuine philosophies. They began because a person early in the project who was a source of several odd ideas, and who was having arguments on the English Wikipedia's mailing list, invented "deletionism" from whole cloth, and someone else invented "inclusionism" as a joke to mock that. And then people who came along years later believed the pages on Meta to be authoritative without really researching what people actually did, or how those pages came about. The earliest version of the "inclusionism" page even pointed out that this was just name-calling. * https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inclusionism&oldid=16972 https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inclusionism&ol...