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- Well, I've stumbled on Wikipedia's deletion process, & discovered I can spend a lot of time going through the list, arguing about keeping things, rather than doing research & improving pages. I find it infuriating. On the one hand, I want to stop the efforts of presumably well-meaning people who want to delete Gnuff as "non-notable." On the other hand, not only would I rather be working on the entries, but I think that it actually does more good to build pages up slowly from small stubs rather than burning them out for being apparently underwhelming. I guess this makes me both broadly Inclusionist & Eventualist.
- Then again, maybe my problem is that I have tended to edit according to what Wikipedia appears to be (a vast array of useful information very freely contributed), rather than what its rules call for (an open-content Web-based World Book); these are two entirely different things. I'm thinking I need to get out of here & do some real research & writing where my hands aren't tied, since I'm fighting the wrong fight in the wrong place.
