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Deletionists – Schott’s Vocab Blog – NYTimes.com

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:

via Deletionists – Schott’s Vocab Blog – NYTimes.com.

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