Deletionism

Deletionism is an ideology of information

control that forms from innate

desires to purify/censor content to fit

specific ideology or worldview, by

excluding inconvenient or contradicting information,

which avoids cognitive dissonance for the editor.

Deletionism operates by constructing 'purity narratives'

where only a single point of view is represented:

such narratives demands adherence to standards(neutrality/reputation/accuracy) and rules

of content that can be interpreted at the deletionist

whim to exclude information based on the authority or notability of source, or conversely by excluding content

published by primary source as 'original research' or

'self-promotion' if the information is opposed to deletionist worldview.

Deletionism proclaim the importance of quality of sources, lack of independent research and total reliance

on 'authoritative sources' as virtues for content creation: the ideal deletionist wiki is just pages summarizing 'notable' source content with direct citations for every sentence.

Deletionism and laconic representation of content are not related, as the later is merely a compression of

content and former is content removal by convinient criteria. Deletionists dictate the scope of 'allowed content' using their judgement of content categories and

fields that are not 'pure' enough to be included:

A pure content has to fit the worldview of deletionist

and have an authoritative source from which it can be

cited for complete support.

The views of deletionists can vary dependent on

their personal relation to the subject of content:

opposing views that declare notability or importance of

something depend on deletionist sympathy towards the subject and its content sources.