Re: Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?
Charles Matthews <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:44:59 +0100
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On 13 April 2013 22:12, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > My basic observation here is that inclusionism/deletionism debates > seem intractable [...] Indeed. As is characteristic of false dichotomies. I was once asked by a prominent journalist where I stood on this. I replied that it was a boring question. And that once I had defined myself as deletionist on science topics, where we don't want cruft and pseudo, and inclusionist on humanities topics, where we really cannot always know what the academics will turn to next. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l