A large amount of them were trolling attempts that were immediately closed,
so it's not like there were actually 18 attempts at deleting the article.
Many of them (in fact, I think most) were just by trolls to get a rise out
of people.
On 11/28/06, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
TD wrote:
I applaud the culture shift that has taken place
on Wikipedia that
has allowed [[Gay Nigger Association of America]] to be deleted
And at the risk of sounding contentious, I must deplore it.
It was the fifth or sixth deletion attempt that got me involved
in Wikipedia in the first place. As I wrote in my very first
contribution as a registered user, during the July 2005 deletion
nomination,
...true story: this morning I was idly curious about GNAA,
and was pleased to discover the Wikipedia article, so
that I didn't have to favor GNAA's site with an undeserved
hit. Trolls they certainly are, and sad it is that
they've become "notable", but like it or not, they are,
and the article is wholly appropriate.
And that's my opinion (or would be my opinion, if we still had
the article) today.
Have there really been *twelve* more attempts? (The fact that it
took that many has got to say something...)
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