Maybe overzealous #deletionists need to read Wikipedia policy more carefully?

"Nominators for deletion should demonstrate a reasonable level of competence. This means articles, categories or templates should not be nominated in a routine fashion, nor because one feels too lazy to check for sources, or if the content is still being built or improved."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction_to_deletion_process

Anyone keen to help create a WikiProject for improving articles related to the #fediverse?

#Wikipedia

Just in case anyone is worried about Wikipedia's priorities, no need to worry. They've deleted a bunch of irrelevant articles, about trivia like pioneering Free Code software projects developed for Indymedia and the fediverse. But lengthy articles about internet memes are safe as houses ; )

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

#Wikipedia #deletionists

@drpink @skip_lacaze #Deletionists don’t go looking for evidence to improve and keep an article, unless it’s in their fanzone—sports, video games, porn actresses, whatever. OTOH, I would have been tempted to tag the original article as needing various improvements if it wasn’t expanded promptly.

@Ooze @trishalynn @Damon Good luck. I used to spend more time on #Wikipedia than social media. Dealing with #Deletionists discouraged me and I cut back on my editing hours. It wasn’t so much the few negative comments that showed up on my talk page, but the comments made in deletion discussions on some articles that I had started or many that I watched. The cadre of pissants that would show up at every attempt to delete an article about a public high school almost always supported each other with arguments that, essentially, ignored Wikipedia’s Five Pillars in favor of “I’m not interested in this, so it doesn’t belong here.” The same opposition was raised to articles about young or female achievers other than in tech or other fanboy favorites. It was also clear that few editors or admins understood what a #Gazetteer was, as opposed to an encyclopedia. I’m going to follow you in hopes that your research will show up before too long. #Wikipedian #Inclusionist

@liaizon
Oh yeah, the #Deletionists have always been a major hurdle for making #Wikipedia into a more complete base of broad and detailed knowledge. So many albums, books, movies, episodes, etc, many of which are even referenced by other articles or their citations, end up being completely undocumented there, because of the strange obsession these people have with trying to find ways to get anything that isn't common knowledge removed. It's especially bad for marginalized groups, which have to deal with a constant onslaught of these people just to have their existence acknowledged by a mainstream information source.