Wikipedia:Toothpaste principle

• "It shall be nearly impossible to delete completely an article once is has been written."

This idea is based on the Toothpaste and Tube principle[?], which states that "Toothpaste, once it leaves its tube, is nearly impossible to put back into the tube."

Cases in point, the AKFD article -- where according to the literature, the article's deletion is hindered by the interest of a few parties and further complicated by flawed and non-systematic voting attempts.

The trends of "probabilistic consensus," if extrapolated to a rule, would suggest that the phenomenon of growth and expansion is nearly absolute in its disproportion to the natural reclamation process of articles, which tends to be speedy and highly reliant on the expertise of individuals.