[hackerspaces] Wikipedia user suggesting deleting loads of Hackerspaces!

[Agent 5]

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.

I ask you this... What would a Lex Luthor do?

-Agent5-


On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:12 PM, ITechGeek <ITG at itechgeek.com> wrote:

> That is the same guy who nominated HacDC for deletion.  This guy is a
> one man Wikipedia cleaning service:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&contribs=user&target=ArcAngel&namespace=4
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
> > As others have noticed, lots of hackerspaces on wikipedia are suggested
> > for deletion.
> >
> > I noticed it first for the hackerspace I'm a member of, TOG in Dublin,
> > Ireland. The article was lacking decent sources, so I've researched and
> > updated it a lot now. (That's one benefit from this, I've managed to
> > improve that wikipedia article a lot (I think))
> >
> > I've written up my dealings so far
> >
> > http://www.technomancy.org/hackerspace-wikipedia-delete/
> >
> > The wikipedia editor suggesting it, has made some strange claims, and
> > seems to want to delete all hackerspaces. He seems to think hackerspaces
> > are all in some big conspiracy. I added some sources to other
> > hackerspaces (e.g. when we did the cupcake challenge) and he thought
> > they were unsuitable, since "Artifactory is a hackerspace site, so it's
> > not independent of the subject. Same with 091Labs."
> >
> > If you have a hackerspace on wikipedia, you should check it out, see if
> > you need to add any sources, is that article lacking. This might be a
> > good thing for your hackerspace. Since I spruced up the TOG article,
> > I've realised how much many of our members have done!
> >
> > If you're a wikipedia expert, could you have a look at that article and
> > the AfD page for it
> > (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TOG_(hackerspace)
> ).
> > Do you have any advice to give on improving the article, any feedback?
> > I'm not sure if I'm doing everything right and would appreciate feedback.
> >
> > Happy Hacking
> >
> > Rory
> >
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