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There's a lesson or two in the above snippets. -- [[Felix Pleşoianu]] | <small>[[User talk:Felix|talk]]</small> 01:03, 5 October 2009 (EDT) | There's a lesson or two in the above snippets. -- [[Felix Pleşoianu]] | <small>[[User talk:Felix|talk]]</small> 01:03, 5 October 2009 (EDT) | ||
::Thank you, Felix. Those "guidelines" were the result of a ''lot'' of people's work, and one genius' inspiration. Hint: the genius weren't me ;) [[User:Huw Powell|Huw Powell]] 01:59, 6 October 2009 (EDT) | ::Thank you, Felix. Those "guidelines" were the result of a ''lot'' of people's work, and one genius' inspiration. Hint: the genius weren't me ;) [[User:Huw Powell|Huw Powell]] 01:59, 6 October 2009 (EDT) | ||
== When Huw deleted 90% of the page == | |||
[http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=WikiIndex%3APolicies_and_Guidelines&diff=72573&oldid=72554 Here is the edit] and Huw's edit summary, "This looks to me like the most sensible version - ''please'' use the talk page to discuss changes rather than piling up quoted stuff on the project page". | |||
:Felix and I discussed this in chat (one of the reasons I don't like to use "private" correspondence for these things). One issue we apparently agreed on, is that having a policy that forbids deleting things can be a source of confusion, edit waring, and premature blocking. You might notice how three RationalWiki bureaucrats, you, Nx, and Phantom Hoover, often delete large amounts of work written by others. Isn't it kind of ironic that you would restore the policy that forbids this?... and that you do this by deleting a large amount of work written by others? If you think the most "sensible" version says, "Controversial content should also not be deleted, but debated on the talk pages and/or improved by adding quotations, references, and anything else that may serve as evidence for (or against) it," please tell us how a sensible administrator should react when you delete controversial content? (A few other examples of Huw deleting content that was apparently "controversial" to him [http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Lumeniki&diff=71068&oldid=71030] [http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Lumeniki&diff=70634&oldid=70618] [http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=RationalWiki&diff=70039&oldid=70035] [http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=RationalWiki&diff=70631&oldid=70606].) | |||