Comment by foobarbecue

As a teenager ~18 years ago, I joined ADW (Association of Deletionist Wikipedians) and I was very proud of myself. We took down a lot of personal vanity pages, per the Wikipedia is An Encyclopedia policy (at odds with the Wikipedia is Not Paper policy). I also led the push to get a lot of pokemon pages deleted as not notable. I'm not sure how I feel about all that now. Deleting the vanity pages that people put up about themselves probably improved the platform, but the pokemon were harmless.