[hackerspaces] Wikipedia user suggesting deleting loads of Hackerspaces!

[Koen Martens]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:29:37PM -0500, Agent 5 wrote:
> 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?

This is just the way of wikipedia. They are plagued by a small army of
deletionistas, who think everyone is in one big conspiracy to poison 
the mighty wikipedia with unfounded trivia.

You can try and fight them, but I don't give you a lot of chance against
these Don Quichotte's. They've been with wikipedia longer than any of
us combined, which seems to be the primary criteria for judging your
input to discussions about deletions.

It is like many of the redacted encyclopedeas. You don't just get in there,
you first have to pass the gatekeepers. Traditional encyclopedea have editors,
wikipedia has an army of bots and the deletionist nazi's.

Good luck!

- gmc

> 
> -Agent5-
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:12 PM, ITecghGeek <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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