Wiki Crackdown!

A great idea....





...if you're high.

I wonder how many times they had to edit "gay pedophile" out of the Micheal Jackson article.

IME, wikipedians are pretty good about keeping tabs on edits before they get out of hand. However, this is just... stupid.

The "Exclusionists" at Wikipedia are really dragging the place down.

I read somewhere that a casual user now has a 25% chance of their edits getting reverted (compared to <5% for an insider). Why bother?

Someone seriously needs to download and fork wikipedia. This is getting out of hand.

I was saying that years ago when they started deleting articles for not fitting in with their idea of a free and open source. Trivia started getting excluded as they wanted a more "professional" look, and if some subject was deemed silly, it was removed. How stupid.


J.

That's what happened to the WF article.

Yes, it failed the "notability" check, or some such.

An idiot recently deleted the page on the metal band Straight Line Stitch, claiming they did not meet "notability" criteria. Which was a blatant lie, since they've been on MTV and been featured in magazines, are signed to a label and have had a nationwide (US) album release. You can get the band's stuff on Amazon too.

Basically just one example that I know of, of the bullshit that goes on at wikipedia central.

You can get lots of stuff on Amazon...doesn't mean it's notable!

There was a WF article?

I think Borgs wrote it...good times...

If you've been on MTV and also your records are being sold in record stores across the whole United States you're a notable band. No buts.