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And what constitutes "Inactivity" anyways? A week? A month? A Year? What if I couldn't access the site for that long, for whatever reason? Can this at least be elaborated upon, if not removed?

Additionally, it's spelled ~~(NOT 'SPELT')~~ 'Reversion', and 'Petitioned'.

Additionally, it's spelled 'Reversion', and 'Petitioned'.

--[[User:Mocha2007|Mocha2007]] ([[User talk:Mocha2007|talk]]) 21:15, 26 March 2013 (CET)

Formalities first; yes, both of them are incorrectly spelt. An old import that must have slipped through. Correeeecting.

However, if you read the corresponding section, G-General, you will see that the 8th paragraph states that deletion is highly arbitrary. Of course, it is not something we do lightly, and I do not even think we have done so since the opening of the wiki...!

A reason for it is what you state yourself; bandwidth. The second, most important reason is simply that the wiki easily gets cluttered by attempts devoid of commitement, abandoned projects and rejected sketches. The administrators are all veterans from a previous wiki, which article-wise grew rather extensive. There, 85% of the languages did not have enough content for them to be remotely interesting, and in retrospect, it could have been avoided. And should we ever delete a page, it just takes us a few seconds and we have it restored! ;)

It is indeed correct that Wikipedia does not delete articles for inactivity, but then they are an encyclopaedia, and we are a community. Don't worry, we don't delete pages for pleasure. (it looks good in the stats if we've got more pages...) But it is nice that you ask! Anything else? [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|<span style="color: Orange;">Waahlis</span>]]''' 23:01, 26 March 2013 (CET)

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 And what constitutes "Inactivity" anyways? A week? A month? A Year? What if I couldn't access the site for that long, for whatever reason? Can this at least be elaborated upon, if not removed?
-Additionally, it's spelled (NOT 'SPELT') 'Reversion', and 'Petitioned'.
+Additionally, it's spelled 'Reversion', and 'Petitioned'.
 --[[User:Mocha2007|Mocha2007]] ([[User talk:Mocha2007|talk]]) 21:15, 26 March 2013 (CET)
+Formalities first; yes, both of them are incorrectly spelt. An old import that must have slipped through. Correeeecting.
+However, if you read the corresponding section, G-General, you will see that the 8th paragraph states that deletion is highly arbitrary. Of course, it is not something we do lightly, and I do not even think we have done so since the opening of the wiki...!
+A reason for it is what you state yourself; bandwidth. The second, most important reason is simply that the wiki easily gets cluttered by attempts devoid of commitement, abandoned projects and rejected sketches. The administrators are all veterans from a previous wiki, which article-wise grew rather extensive. There, 85% of the languages did not have enough content for them to be remotely interesting, and in retrospect, it could have been avoided. And should we ever delete a page, it just takes us a few seconds and we have it restored! ;)
+It is indeed correct that Wikipedia does not delete articles for inactivity, but then they are an encyclopaedia, and we are a community. Don't worry, we don't delete pages for pleasure. (it looks good in the stats if we've got more pages...) But it is nice that you ask! Anything else? [[File:Waahlis.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Waahlis|<span style="color: Orange;">Waahlis</span>]]'''   23:01, 26 March 2013 (CET)