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deletionist

deletionist adjective: favoring the deletion of a given passage or work as spurious.

Adjective

deletionist (comparative more deletionist, superlative most deletionist)

  1. Favoring the deletion of a given passage or work as spurious.
  2. Preferring to delete material.
    • In the deletionists’ corner sits the strong sense that the more topics of debatable value are included (they cite such entries as side characters from the Pokémon cartoon or the Heroes TV series as examples), the more dependents will see Wikipedia as a source of fun rather than knowledge. They are...2009, Emmanuel Gobillot, Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration, Kogan Page, published 2011, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 89
    Antonyms:
    inclusionist

Noun

deletionist (plural deletionists)

  1. A user with deletionist sentiments.
    • The two groups had been vying for control from early on in the site's life, but the numbers suggest that the deletionists may have won. The increasing difficulty of making a successful edit; the exclusion of casual users; slower growth – all are hallmarks of the deletionist approach.2009 August 12, Bobbie Johnson, “Wikipedia approaches its limits”, in The Guardian

Antonyms of deletionist

Forms of deletionist

Adjective
comparativemore deletionist
superlativemost deletionist
Noun
pluraldeletionists

Origin of deletionist

From deletion + -ist.

Questions about deletionist

What does deletionist mean?
Deletionist means favoring the deletion of a given passage or work as spurious.
What part of speech is deletionist?
Deletionist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near deletionist in the dictionary

  1. deletia
  2. deleting
  3. deletion
  4. deletional
  5. deletionism
  6. deletionist
  7. deletionists
  8. deletions
  9. deletive
  10. deletogenic
  11. deletories

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