Shizhao added that at the time of 2010 he had already edit more than 50,000 times, deleting several articles including Manual for Librarians.

Having said the above - I will still happily delete articles which are clearly just advertising copy, as was the case with FAR.

Mr. Jacobs and all the publishers involved said the cost of deleting articles would be minimal.

Above the echelon of casual editors are more serious volunteers who set standards, delete articles and argue with each other about what belongs and what doesn't.

He added, "There is no need to delete articles."

"Tour is part of show, part of experience," said Mr. Komar, whose English often deletes articles.

Administrators who delete articles for one reason or another are defeating the purpose.

Administrator powers include deleting articles, protecting pages from editing, and blocking users; actions that ordinary (non-sysop) editors cannot do or undo.

The article has been deleted from our database: Very rarely, we do delete articles from our database because of legal reasons.