http://simonwillison.net/2011-02-07T16:24:00+00:00Simon Willison2011-02-07T16:24:00+00:002011-02-07T16:24:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2011/Feb/7/adactio/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://adactio.com/journal/4336/">Erase and rewind</a></strong></p> The BBC plan to delete 172 sites from the bbc.co.uk domain, including WW2 People’s War, described thus: “The BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006. This archive of 47,000 stories and 15,000 images is the result.” Appalling. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bbc">bbc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/deletionism">deletionism</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2008-06-16T08:23:45+00:002008-06-16T08:23:45+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/16/twitter/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/835112269"><p>The fatal flaw of deletionism is the mindset of deciding what someone else <em>should</em> find interesting</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/835112269">Jeff Atwood</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/deletionism">deletionism</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jeff-atwood">jeff-atwood</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wikipedia">wikipedia</a></p>