User:Subsume/Deletionism

Deletionism has become cancerous at Wikipedia, a good and healthy process gone unchecked and awry.

I was reminded of this while creating a stub for Julius Langbehn, a German art-historian I read about in school. Not 5 minutes after I created the article it was flagged for speedy delete. Apparently the Administrator couldn't be bothered to click either the 'What links here' or check google, for if he did he would have found several popular articles that already linked to the author, and the top google result would have yielded the fact that Langbehn already had an artikel at de.wikipedia. Every attempt to portray this as an error was dismissed which of course means its a mistake they make so routinely they're not even willing to define it as a mistake.

I was reminded again while looking at the deletion page for a mud. Nearly every one of the Administrators thought the article was 'interesting' but deleted it for other reasons, usually something along the lines of "this is not encyclopedic". Well, why don't you try altering your idea of what is or isn't encyclopedic?

They remind me of maggots on an open wound--working well as long as they're tediously clearing away the dead flesh of vanity pages, but a nuisance that all-too-often sinks its teeth carelessly into the live flesh of valuable content.

In my opinion, Administrators should retrogressively have to take the following oath:

I, deletionist Wikipedian, do hereby renounce the assumption that I know all about all things important. I do hereby promise not to dismiss outright and place the holy XfD flag upon pages where I'd do better just to keep my mouth shut.