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So, some exclusionist wikipedian nominated the Blockparty article for deletion within a minute of its creation. Nice. Anyway, the old "it's as notable as any other demoparty" logic may have backfired, with one particularly confrontational editor pledging to nominate all the other party articles for deletion.

If you can dedicate some time to finding outside-the-scene references to demoparties in general, or just weigh in on the AfD vote page for each page on the chopping block, the history of the scene will appreciate your effort.

cue truck.

i really wouldnt like to go in a discussion here, so let's stick to "some people on wikipedia are a bit trigger-happy".

Gargaj: back in the usenet (tezcat) days, this is what was referred to as a 'Truck Troll.'

And, it's very, very difficult not to respond to it.

Okay, fill me in on the truck thing.

I believe there is a "don't call in reinforcements" section in the wikipedia rules (atleast there are in the Swedish version). Which means that if you don't are a regular editor on wikipedia it might not be such a good idea to register and vote against deletion.

That said, one can always point to the fact that Intel is sponsoring something that could be called a demoparty. If a phenomenon is important enough for Intel to take intrest in it sure is relevant to Wikipedia.

i'm a regular editor (i just clocked at my 5000th edit recently) so i voted

We've been through this before. Calling people in didn't help, it just proved that wikipedia's process (and therefore it's information) sucks. Everyone new who didn't speak wikipedian got labelled a 'sock puppet' and the wikitards went ahead with promoting their state of information fashion.
Don't try to fight it. Domain-knowledge won't help you. You don't have enough 'points'. Correcting a few thousand punctuation errors will get you points (no offense, Gargaj) and randomly deleting articles that aren't babysat will also get you points. The swarm of spell-checkers and random deleters will decide if your information is more important than Fraggle Rock trivia, and they've convinced themselves that this is the path to truth. After all, there's a wikipedia article about it.

i dont correct punctuations errors, i place them deliberately :D

back in the days of usenet there was wikipedia?!?!?!? :P

@Gargaj: well, that's okay then. : D

OMG, how can people say that that party wasn't notable? There was a dead guy holding a presentation there!!!

(If you don't believe me try clicking the Jim "Trixer" Leonard link on Block Party's wikipedia page ;-)

BgND - blasphemer!!! everybody knows that wiki is the truth of truths, the most high, the authority to end any debate.

This is all just proves of how sucky democracy is.

rmeht, you're not making it easier by vandalizing the page.

That's a job for... SUPER GARGAJ... oh wait. He already posted here :)

just go to the scene wiki and add all you want.

Yes, if you define democracy as the rule of a bunch of self proclaimed know-it-alls.

Do you guys really think the demoscene is that interesting?

I second hollowman here. Let's work on making it interesting rather than screaming that it is.

Deletion is the 1st step towards becoming underground once again.
Also, someone should hack and delete this.

nutman, word! and all sceners should move to squats!

aw come on nutman that was a pretty fun initiative taken by these blokes. I found it a delight to read about anyway :)
Have you forgotten how we back in the amiga days were hyped if there was a 5 minute tv spot about the demoscene, it was recognition, and now we have a mastodont like nvidia looking interrested at it, how is that for recognition?!

el topo, that is the best description of democracy i have heard in ages.

Those 5 minute TV spots tended to be pretty cringeworthy.