NYT makes “deletionst”–as in “someone who deletes Wikipedia article on a daily basis”-a notable phrase…
In the Wall Street Journal, Julia Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler reported on a dramatic decline in the number of Wikipedia editors (down by more than 49,000 in the first quarter of 2009). Citing a variety of reasons for the decline, including a paucity of new articles left to write, Angwin and Fowler suggested that some users were put off by the cavalier approach of certain Wikipedia editors to the deletion of entries: