> Did you ever stop to think what positive impact the deletion of these articles actually makes?
As far as I can tell, the only positive contribution that deletionism makes to the welfare of humanity is it makes individual deletionists happy when they destroy other people's work.
I wonder if anyone has done research into possible links between deletionism and mental disorders such as OCPD?
There's lots of pages on Wikipedia that are basically self-promotion, or descriptions of inconsequential "news" events, or "micro-celebrities," or moderately rich people, or other stuff that will have no relevance in 10 years, except to people with OCPD who like to hoard information.
Yes, some are harmful in that promotion disguised as objectivity is misleading.
That's a whole separate issue from notability, though. On this and many other issues I think the notability bar is set too high. I'm much rather see a wikipedia page on an obscure language than not, and I have read a few in the past.
As far as I can tell, the only positive contribution that deletionism makes to the welfare of humanity is it makes individual deletionists happy when they destroy other people's work.
I wonder if anyone has done research into possible links between deletionism and mental disorders such as OCPD?