Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians/Arguments

These are quotes from some deletionists and my arguements. If you'd like to comment, please do so. Thanks.

Quotes & Arguements

Wikipedia needs to be cleaned up! You said that! Why did you delete then!

• Wikipedia is not a junkyard, counter to the inclusionist quote, Wikipedia is not paper. --Improv 06:05, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

That's what cleanup is for, not deletion.

• Wikipedia is not /dev/null UninvitedCompany 20:19, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Translate please?

• The proliferation of mediocrity is never its own excuse, and the absence of good information does not obviate the need for that information. Geogre 16:55, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

What???

• Wikipedia is not Google JFWT@lk 20:00, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia should replace Google.

• • Somebody has been reading my essay :) -- Avraham 14:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

...

• Single-sentence "substubs" do not an encyclopedia entry make. Or, if you prefer, substubs suck. Mediocrity should not be tolerated! - Lucky 6.9 05:51, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well, kill your baby before the baby grows.

• Roses are red/violets are blue/in Soviet Wikipedia/bad article delete you. --Slowking Man

Translate please?

See: Yakov Smirnoff

• Wikipedia is and will always be an encyclopedia. [...] It is not a general base of knowledge. - Anthony DiPierro

But Jimbo said that Wikipedia should be the sum of total knowledge on the world.

• Verifiable ≠ Enyclopedic Johnleemk 12:54, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

But Jimbo said that Wikipedia should be the sum of total knowledge on the world.

• Inclusionism is the easy option. Elf-friend 20:37, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Why choose the harder one?

• Wikipedia is not toilet paper, as opposed to the inclusionist quote, Wikipedia is not paper. 165.21.154.111 08:23, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

So, delete everything till nothing's left.

• If in doubt, delete. Erwin Walsh

...without further thoughts?

If you doubt that your spouse loves you, kill.

• Brevity is the soul of wit. HatTrick

Brevity is the doom of Wikipedia.

• Brevity is ... wit. Mazin07

Brevity is ... stub.

• Wikipedia is not a dumpster —attr. Viajero

Wikipedia shouldn't be EMPTY. It should be full.

• Better Wikipedia articles through deletionism? You bet your sweet ass. Deiz 14:27, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Are you an inclusionist?

I suppose if you're a nihilist and consider nonexistence "Better"

• Wikipedia is not Wikipedia --Ron Ritzman 02:25, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Because deletionists delete everything.

• Famous ≠ Notable Lurker 14:30, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Famous ≈ Notable

• Deletion solves all problems. No article, no problem. - Mailer Diablo 17:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

No article, no problem, no Wikipedia.

• Wikipedia is not Chewing Tobacco, and Other Surreal Essays.

What are you talking about???

• Del Taco. Uh, demeat...baleet...DELETE IT. 21655 20:04, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Translate this alien language, please.

• Inclusionism is for lazy fatwads. Bsharkey 17:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Deletionism is for lazy builders.

• Nuke it like a bad Windows installation. 75.53.198.187 19:08, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Why not try reinstall it?

So then how do you still have a PC with which to constrict Wikipedia? I guess something was worth saving.

• Wikipedia is not the Internet. Kelvinc 04:04, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

But Jimbo said that Wikipedia should be the sum of total knowledge on the world.

• Wikipedia is not just "view article ooh look an edit tab click replace content with KAKAKAKAKAKA click enter admin deletes/reverts it." 97.96.166.65 01:44, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

That would be vandalism/test edits. Nothing to do with deleting an article. Reverting it would be easier.

• Deletion is the final solution to the extremist (extremely deletionist page-blanking vandals and extremely inclusionist spammers) problem. Alexius08 06:58, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Why not try warning, blocking or page protecting instead?