Forum:Congress/Article Preservation

I think this "deletion of articles upon quitting" thing is ridiculous. I, Explorer 767, propose that the COC disallow users to delete their articles, no matter how big or small, upon the users' quitting. Why?


 * If the articles to be deleted are especially important and core to the wiki, the wiki is damaged and will probably lose popularity. For more, ask Kwiksilver about his Burger Analogy.
 * It's just depressing to see all those redlinks where you should see fresh, clean blue links. It also reminds you more of said quitter.
 * This wiki is licensed under the GFDL copyleft code, which, I believe, states that any work produced under this license may be copied and distributed as long as the work is attributed to any and all previous authors, all changes to the work are logged, and all derivative works are also licensed under the GFDL. Therefore, the articles are not exactly copyrighted to the creator(s) of their concepts, just the wiki as a whole. This means that the said quitters have virtually no right to delete "their" articles.

 Yours "Falsely",   Explorer 767 ( The Nerd Quibbles On...  )    View this template   18:33, 10 May 2009 (UTC)