> With bits being basically free these days The work required to maintain quality is not free though. The larger Wikipedia becomes, the more resources are need

> With bits being basically free these days The work required to maintain quality is not free though. The larger Wikipedia becomes, the more resources are needed to ensure a high quality. There is already a system completely free of "deletionism" with limitless scope which anyone can publish anything on. Its called the web. Why do people want their favorite topic published on Wikipedia rather than on their own page? Because they want the additional authority which comes from being on Wikipedia. But this authority comes from quality control. I think some of the complaints against deletionism could be resolved with independent domain-specific wikipedias with different rules. For example a programming language-pedia could allow original content written by the language designers, something that is not appropriate for wikipedia.