Please, do not make pages for the words you use unless you are confident such a page would be valuable to this audience. This wiki is not a dictionary. Wiki being wiki, this request was followed by much debate.
Personally, I feel that (unless you're Tom, and it's a memory/bandwidth/other tech thing I don't understand issue) Our Words or no Our Words, deleting other people's pages because you don't feel they're valuable is plain rude. Editing and consolidation is one thing, erasure another. -- WJR
Firstly, there are no "other people's pages" because there are no "people's pages". Pages don't belong to anyone: this is a fundamental principle of wiki, and it is not negotiable (consider that an end-user license!). Everyone has as much right to edit any page (with the exception of name pages) as anyone else. However that doesn't mean it's okay to just go around deleting things - even if the deleter happens to have created or written most of the page in the first place. Vandalism is vandalism, regardless of the identity of the vandal. Nonetheless some things are better off deleted. So, what should have happened is that someone should have written a note somewhere, say on Message Of The Day, and proposed the deletions; we could then have decided what to do together (or signalled our assent by not objecting), and the proposer could have proceeded in the confidence that what they were doing was correct. Luckily, in the present case, few pages of substantial value were deleted, so it doesn't matter greatly either way. -- Tom Anderson
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