> Jan:
>
>> I might as well give you the full list of articles currently under
>> attack:
>> <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Aingelj%C3%A3>
>> <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Breathanach>
>> <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Brithenig>
>> <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/DiLingo>
>> <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Fyksland>
>> <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Verdurian
>> language>
>> <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Wenedyk>
>
>
> I read the Brithenig discussion, & the arrogance & ignorance of some of the
> pro-deletion contributors made me so angry that it made me want to wash
> my hands of the wikipedia project (in the sense of it receiving my
> goodwill & wholly passive support), if the structure of the project is
> such that articles can be vulnerable to the intervention of people like
> these. One of the joys of the internet is that it is free from the
> deadening effects of adherence to cultural norms, received wisdoms,
> orthodoxies and so forth.
> I had supposed that wikipedia was constructed in a similar spirit, but
> with the added element of the public volunteering their expertise for
> the project, so as to ensure that the content of articles is correct,
> true and fair. But if the project is supposed to also be an arbiter of
> what is 'important' -- well, I considered that to the job of the
> wikipedia *user*; I want the decision about what is important to be
> made by me, when choosing which articles to read, not made by the
> prejudices of particular wikipedia activists, nor even by the aggregated
> prejudices of the rest of society.
>
> To sum up, the very fact that wikipedia can entertain the sort of crap
> spouted by the deletionists makes me think that the wikipedia project
> is bled of much of its value, and hence that battles over the inclusion
> of this or that conlang are not worth fighting.
>
> --And.
>
>