User blog comment:Rpakr/Reforms 2/@comment-5150073-20190909115744/@comment-39541634-20190910144516

@P-bot.

I agree that deleting those articles without a more elaborate discussion was a mistake (especially since it is now obvious that there is no community consensus on the matter) but nobody broke any rules. It is an admin's job to interpert the written rules in a way that reflects the will of the community and common sense.

And this deletion did not happen in a vacuum. There was a pretty lengthy discussion, and people gave reasonable arguments for initiating this change. Also, keep in mind that there just aren't enough active members here to formally enact new rules. Try to suggest a new rule, and see how many votes you get... When the discussion is less formal, more people respond, and the direction in which the community wants the wiki to go becomes clearer.

At any rate, since there seem to be quite a few people who oppose this change, we shouldn't delete any more articles. Unless there truely is a consensus, we shouldn't change anything (as much as I personally think that the current situation is absurd).

P.S.

Blog posts are a completely different thing. Blog posts are a form of personal expression, and "being important" has absolutely nothing with their function. Wiki articles, on the other hand, have notability criteria: A list of conditions that tells you if the subject matter is important enough and noteworthy enough to be included.

So the idea of deleting a blog post just because people deem it "unimportant" is ridiculous. Blog posts are only deleted if they violate the community guidelines which is something completely different. And here, too, admins have discretion. You can't have a written rule of every single situation, so common sense is needed here as well. Admins and discussion mods most certainly have the right to delete offensive content (for example) even if it doesn't technically violate any rule.