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by adekok 3410 days ago
My experience was that the prime criteria for deletion was that the Wikipedia editors be unfamiliar with the material.

1000 pages on Pokemon? Great!

2 pages on obscure technical subjects, of interest to tens of thousands of IT admins world-wide? Nah... get rid of it.

I stopped contributing to Wikipedia when my edits were nuked as often as they were made. When spammers and people making negative contributions had their changes last longer than people making positive changes... well... Wikipedia is no longer of interest.

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Wikipedia (with it's current edit culture) is an example of what bikeshedding looks like when scaled up.