Simon Willison on deletionism

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The BBC plan to delete 172 sites from the bbc.co.uk domain, including WW2 People’s War, described thus: “The BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006. This archive of 47,000 stories and 15,000 images is the result.” Appalling.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2011/Feb/7/adactio/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2011/Feb/7/">7th February 2011</a>, <a href="/2011/Feb/7/adactio/">4:24 pm</a> / <a href="/tags/bbc/">bbc</a>, <a href="/tags/deletionism/">deletionism</a>, <a href="/tags/recovered/">recovered</a></p> </div> <h3 class="blog-mixed-list-year">2008</h3> <div class="quote segment"> <blockquote cite="http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/835112269"><p>The fatal flaw of deletionism is the mindset of deciding what someone else <em>should</em> find interesting</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">— <a href="https://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/835112269">Jeff Atwood</a></span></p> <p class="date-and-tags"> <a href="/2008/Jun/16/twitter/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/Jun/16/">16th June 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/Jun/16/twitter/">8:23 am</a> / <a href="/tags/jeff-atwood/">jeff-atwood</a>, <a href="/tags/deletionism/">deletionism</a>, <a href="/tags/wikipedia/">wikipedia</a> </p> </div> </div>  <div id="secondary"> <div class="metabox"> <p><strong>Related</strong></p> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/bbc/" rel="tag"> bbc <span>35</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/recovered/" rel="tag"> recovered <span>213</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/jeff-atwood/" rel="tag"> jeff-atwood <span>10</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag"> wikipedia <span>43</span> </a> </p> </div> </div>  </div>  <div id="ft"> <ul> <li><a href="/about/#about-site">Colophon</a></li> <li>©</li> <li><a href="/2002/">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/2003/">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/2004/">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/2005/">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/2006/">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/2007/">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/2008/">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/2009/">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/2010/">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/2011/">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/2012/">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/2013/">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/2014/">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/2015/">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/2016/">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/2018/">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/2019/">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/2020/">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/2021/">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/2022/">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/2023/">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/2024/">2024</a></li> <li><a href="/2025/">2025</a></li> </ul> </div> <script> document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { document.querySelectorAll('h4[id],h5[id],h6[id]').forEach(el => { const id = el.getAttribute('id'); const permalinkContext = el.closest('[data-permalink-context]'); if (permalinkContext) { const url = permalinkContext.getAttribute('data-permalink-context'); const hashLink = document.createElement('a'); hashLink.style.borderBottom = 'none'; hashLink.style.color = '#666'; hashLink.style.fontSize = '1em'; hashLink.style.opacity = 0.8; hashLink.setAttribute('href', url + '#' + id); hashLink.innerText = '#'; el.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' ')); el.appendChild(hashLink); } }); }); </script> <script type="module"> const config = [ {"tag": "lite-youtube", "js": "/static/lite-yt-embed.js", "css": "/static/lite-yt-embed.css"} ]; for (const {tag, js, css} of config) { if (document.querySelector(tag)) { if (css) { document.head.appendChild( Object.assign(document.createElement('link'), { rel: 'stylesheet', href: css }) ); } if (js) { await import(js); } } } </script> </body> </html>

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