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		ckinnan on Aug 28, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Y Combinator Article Nominated for Deletion by Wik... It's the Internet! Why delete any articles, ever!? It's not like Wikipedia is running out of database space or something. It's dumb to have a subjective "notability" standard at all in a world of practically infinite scale.

gnaritas on Aug 28, 2008 | [–]

It's called signal to noise. All content is not good content and serves to make the good content hard to find. Deletion is necessary.

pb30 on Aug 28, 2008 | [–]

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism#Rationale_for_del...

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