<div>Wow I thought it was just us. We made our first DC401 page and it was taken down twice already this week. Granted it may require some tweaking but I felt deletion was a bit extreme. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I ask you this... What would a Lex Luthor do?</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Agent5-</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:12 PM, ITechGeek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ITG@itechgeek.com">ITG@itechgeek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
That is the same guy who nominated HacDC for deletion. This guy is a<br>
one man Wikipedia cleaning service:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&contribs=user&target=ArcAngel&namespace=4" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&contribs=user&target=ArcAngel&namespace=4</a><br>
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Rory McCann <<a href="mailto:rory@technomancy.org">rory@technomancy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> As others have noticed, lots of hackerspaces on wikipedia are suggested<br>
> for deletion.<br>
><br>
> I noticed it first for the hackerspace I'm a member of, TOG in Dublin,<br>
> Ireland. The article was lacking decent sources, so I've researched and<br>
> updated it a lot now. (That's one benefit from this, I've managed to<br>
> improve that wikipedia article a lot (I think))<br>
><br>
> I've written up my dealings so far<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.technomancy.org/hackerspace-wikipedia-delete/" target="_blank">http://www.technomancy.org/hackerspace-wikipedia-delete/</a><br>
><br>
> The wikipedia editor suggesting it, has made some strange claims, and<br>
> seems to want to delete all hackerspaces. He seems to think hackerspaces<br>
> are all in some big conspiracy. I added some sources to other<br>
> hackerspaces (e.g. when we did the cupcake challenge) and he thought<br>
> they were unsuitable, since "Artifactory is a hackerspace site, so it's<br>
> not independent of the subject. Same with 091Labs."<br>
><br>
> If you have a hackerspace on wikipedia, you should check it out, see if<br>
> you need to add any sources, is that article lacking. This might be a<br>
> good thing for your hackerspace. Since I spruced up the TOG article,<br>
> I've realised how much many of our members have done!<br>
><br>
> If you're a wikipedia expert, could you have a look at that article and<br>
> the AfD page for it<br>
> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TOG_(hackerspace)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TOG_(hackerspace)</a>).<br>
> Do you have any advice to give on improving the article, any feedback?<br>
> I'm not sure if I'm doing everything right and would appreciate feedback.<br>
><br>
> Happy Hacking<br>
><br>
> Rory<br>
><br>
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