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should be deleted. But for many articles, there are other alternatives to deletion that are more constructive, such as merging, adding onto stub artiles, finding sources, fixing wording, line-item deletion, moving it to a more suitable wiki, or simple editing. If an article is written in good faith,
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Thus, the biggest problem with focusing on deletion is the huge amount of wasted hours - people working to improve
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