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My experience is that almost every deletion war I have witnessed is in reality a war about differing "political" beliefs and is an exercise mostly in censorship
by jerrya 15y ago
My experience is that almost every deletion war I have witnessed is in reality a war about differing "political" beliefs and is an exercise mostly in censorship, speech policing, and gate keeping.
Instead of deleting articles, it might be better to "age" articles and let interested parties know when an article hasn't been viewed or edited or linked to 90 days, six months, 1 year, 2 years, etc.
Those articles could then either be freshened, merged, or potentially deleted (after say a decade of never being edited or looked at or linked to.)
- dpark 15y ago> or potentially deleted (after say a decade of never being edited or looked at or linked to.) You've got to be kidding. I no longer edit Wikipedia in part to the deletionism, but a decade of zero interest before deletion? Wikipedia itself is only a decade old. They'd just now be deleting the first vanity pages.
- jerrya 15y agoYes. Exactly. Sounds good to me. I am glad we can agree on this.