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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.
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.
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  • 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.
...without further thoughts?
If you doubt that your spouse loves you, kill.
Brevity is the doom of Wikipedia.
Brevity is ... stub.
  • Wikipedia is not a dumpster —attr. Viajero
Wikipedia shouldn't be EMPTY. It should be full.
Are you an inclusionist?
I suppose if you're a nihilist and consider nonexistence "Better"
Because deletionists delete everything.
Famous ≈ Notable
No article, no problem, no Wikipedia.
  • Wikipedia is not Chewing Tobacco, and Other Surreal Essays.
What are you talking about???
Translate this alien language, please.
Deletionism is for lazy builders.
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.
But Jimbo said that Wikipedia should be the sum of total knowledge on the world.
That would be vandalism/test edits. Nothing to do with deleting an article. Reverting it would be easier.
Why not try warning, blocking or page protecting instead?
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