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>I've seen deletionism creep into articles that were very well written, very well cited and overall a great source of information.

These characteristics are not the measure used for inclusion. Which is absolutely right IMO - one could create a well written article, well cited and be the best source on what hair products some actor uses but it wouldn't make that information more notable.

I think that maintaining as high a quality as possible is important for Wikipedia. Like someone said, making Wikipedia a mirror of the web is not beneficial.

Someone here could probably do all right by making a mirror of all pages being deleted though¹.

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¹ all ready done it seems http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page.



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