Is Wikipedia inclusionist or deletionist? (draft)

Wikipedia is deletionist, except to administrators. To them, Wikipedia is radically inclusionist, since the MediaWiki software allows them to view deleted content while logged in.

To the rest of us, Wikipedia is deletionist. Administrators want to keep that sweet knowledge for themselves, in their private territory. Little they know, many articles were never written in the first place due to the discouragement deletionism causes to article authors.

Some administrators might have serving readers at heart, but there undeniably is a portion of administrators just after excercising power.

Quote by Timwi, an administrator of the former kind, from early 2022 on the deletion discussion of "Battle for Dream Island": "Deleting an article that other people have worked on is objectively worse than keeping it and letting people find out about the topic. No-one’s even asking for it to be promoted or featured or anything. By all means slap a notice on it telling readers that it’s “sourced entirely to blogs and fandom wikis”. I have never heard any good reason from anyone why any good-faith contribution to Wikipedia (that isn’t vandalism, libel, or just garbage) needs to be deleted. All that serves to do is give a massive middle finger to anyone trying to give something to the world, and produces an inferior encyclopedia with less coverage."