Scene-related articles up for deletion on Wikipedia
category: general [glöplog]
phoenix/nezbie: Nope, but looking at it, it really proves my point once more, doesn't it? Some guy who calls himself an "american blogger", and he even has a website!!1 Now that's something special. No wonder he had to create an article about himself. And another article about his website...
No wonder the US scene gets nothing done. If you already take pride in getting your tooth brushed in the morning (writing a Wikipedia article about it afterwards), actual scene standards must appear to be unreachable to you. :)
No wonder the US scene gets nothing done. If you already take pride in getting your tooth brushed in the morning (writing a Wikipedia article about it afterwards), actual scene standards must appear to be unreachable to you. :)
STOP THE PRESS! It's probably even teeth, not tooth.
Jason Scott once replaced some picture people ripped from his site to use on MySpace with Goatse.
So he is ok in my book.
So he is ok in my book.
For great justice!
that is probably the dorkiest thing i've ever seen on the internet.
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Let's turn the question: Is it okay to write an article for an encyclopedia about an event that happened so far only once? The answer is a clear "depends." Let's see:Okay, shall we look at the list of active WP sceners who attended blockparty?
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Seriously, even I would request speedy deletion here.Blockparty broke the mold by having a record attendance for a North American demoparty: with 200+ people attending Notacon, 100+ watching the competition, and over 40 entries across all the divisions.
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As long as the inclusionists can't ensure quality, exclusionists have to do this job. Collecting every piece of information is not the job of an encyclopedia.So, some exclusionist wikipedian nominated the Blockparty article for deletion within a minute of its creation.
any wedding usually beats blockparty in attendance number :p
wikipedia sux ass more than britney spears does drugs
wooooOOOO, must sucks a lot then :)
GbND for wiki president :D
wise words, but wikipedia admins have to wonder wether any information is noteworthy enough to be stored in wikipedia, and of course it's not as they see the growing technical problems, wikipedia answer time seems to be slower and slower...
and that's why wiki sources are freely given, so that little communities can build and host their own wikis.
isn't the world wonderful ? ;D
wise words, but wikipedia admins have to wonder wether any information is noteworthy enough to be stored in wikipedia, and of course it's not as they see the growing technical problems, wikipedia answer time seems to be slower and slower...
and that's why wiki sources are freely given, so that little communities can build and host their own wikis.
isn't the world wonderful ? ;D
I think I'll add my birthday to Wikipedia. I had over 20 attendees from which 15 got really drunk! A breakthrough!
Zest:
Haha! Oh man, that would be a terrible job. There's no way to fix WP's problems.
Anyway about admin resources not scaling - you've got admins, but you've also got people trying to rack up edit points so that they can -become- admins. It's a PVP MUD where you always get better loot and easier XP by killing newbies than doing quests. I hate PKers, i'm a carebear.
And hey, -my- handfasting/wedding was a small intimate event, we only had 15 people. That would put it on the level of Pilgrimage 2005.
Which has a WP page with some awesomely questionable links: Legalize's (the organizer) personal webpage, and 3 seperate pouet bbs topics. lols. Whatevers.
Haha! Oh man, that would be a terrible job. There's no way to fix WP's problems.
Anyway about admin resources not scaling - you've got admins, but you've also got people trying to rack up edit points so that they can -become- admins. It's a PVP MUD where you always get better loot and easier XP by killing newbies than doing quests. I hate PKers, i'm a carebear.
And hey, -my- handfasting/wedding was a small intimate event, we only had 15 people. That would put it on the level of Pilgrimage 2005.
Which has a WP page with some awesomely questionable links: Legalize's (the organizer) personal webpage, and 3 seperate pouet bbs topics. lols. Whatevers.
thing about an article for a US party is that in the US, Wikipedia is actually taken as a serious reference, and a valid article is actually usable as a very important marketing tool.
Gargaj: You can say the same thing about a high google ranking and that's exactly why we see so much abuse on the net like linkfarms. Wikipedia should not be used as a marketing tool.
there's a subtle difference between adhering to the rules and abusing the opportunity - i dont see the problem with the article since (highly POV) notability is the only criteria one can cite as an opposition. it's not like it's linked into every second article to make sure EVERYONE knows about it.
again, i was referring to use wikipedia as a REFERENCE - which, well, is a bad idea inherently, but enough people do that to make sure that it needs to be taken care of.
again, i was referring to use wikipedia as a REFERENCE - which, well, is a bad idea inherently, but enough people do that to make sure that it needs to be taken care of.
Seems someone deleted Blockparty article 2nd time around
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Blockparty_%282nd_nomination%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Blockparty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Blockparty_%282nd_nomination%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Blockparty
I don't think anyone really cares.
This was actually pretty enlightening to read - some of the guys editing wikipedia really think that a good encyclopedia should only have articles that interest the editor. Uhh.
How 'bout a demoscene wiki?
Optimus: i think limp ninja had one at some point. ppl didnt use it.
Wow. Times have changed! What happened to the pouet lynching group?
pouet mob never seemed to care much for anything jscott. just saying.
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It's hard to be neutral about your own pet project.
No actually it's not. Do you find that hard?
Regarding Wikipedia: Why do they delete anything? That is stupid. Let's throw all "deleter"-type guys out of everything. We don't want them anymore.