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Notability is a core concern of Wikipedia by anybody who cares about Wikipedia being a useful place to get information. People who delete are generally more us
by faeriechangling 4y ago
Notability is a core concern of Wikipedia by anybody who cares about Wikipedia being a useful place to get information. People who delete are generally more useful on wikipedia than those who add, because there are way too many people on wikipedia who add articles relative to those who delete them which is gradually degrading the quality of the site over time.
More articles of low notability means worse searchability and editing inherently. The issue as somebody who has fought to delete far more articles across knowledge bases than anybody I've met (also somebody who had ADDED an unusually high amount of articles), you have to fight for every inch, and reasonable people eventually people give up because they get nothing but abuse for their labours and just let things decay. Of course, this only makes it easier to berate anybody so unreasonable as to keep up the fight.
Look at the people who fought edit wars for notability over these articles, they are literally now in an article about "gender bias on wikipedia", what sane person would wilfully inflict such reputational damage on themselves? Did the people who added all the articles of men but never added articles of women end up in such an article? Honestly the person in the OP would be more useful deleting the articles of irrelevant men than adding those of under-represented women which addresses the exact same issue of gender bias, but then she would likely receive several times the hate. The neutrality of her edits would receive several times the scrutiny despite having the exact same agenda.