Everybody knows that edit wars are prohibited but deletion wars are fully legal and seem to be holier than edit wars. Namely, it is fully legal to continuously nominate an article for deletion every week until enough keepers are absent that the deleters outnumber them. This situation, when some people are just absent, is considered "changing of consensus" and, as a result, the article is deleted. Furthermore, when only a small number of people or even only one person is present, the deletion discussion is considered "full consensus" and a "strong argument for deletion". So the Question is: are Deletion Wars so holy for Wikipedia or not?
P.S. There were some discussions at village pump which show the existence of this problem. ( Idot ( talk) 02:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC))
This should be moved out of the article talk namespace as soon as possible. For now, I'll move it into the namespace of the user who created it. -- Soman ( talk) 03:01, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Everybody knows that edit wars are prohibited but deletion wars are fully legal and seem to be holier than edit wars. Namely, it is fully legal to continuously nominate an article for deletion every week until enough keepers are absent that the deleters outnumber them. This situation, when some people are just absent, is considered "changing of consensus" and, as a result, the article is deleted. Furthermore, when only a small number of people or even only one person is present, the deletion discussion is considered "full consensus" and a "strong argument for deletion". So the Question is: are Deletion Wars so holy for Wikipedia or not?
P.S. There were some discussions at village pump which show the existence of this problem. ( Idot ( talk) 02:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC))
This should be moved out of the article talk namespace as soon as possible. For now, I'll move it into the namespace of the user who created it. -- Soman ( talk) 03:01, 25 April 2010 (UTC)