--- Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Even if you subtract the newbies, it's fairly
obvious that there is no
consensus to delete.
No consensus? What's consensus?
I think the page should be kept
for now, but this
is a special case of WP:MEME where the meme is still
very young and
it's hard to determine how ephemeral it will be.
Special cases are subject to editorial axeing by the
Editorial Qabal.
There's nothing wrong with doing another AfD two
or
three months from
now.
Patience is only a virtue, nothing more.
In the case of [[Brian Peppers]], Jimmy tried
an article creation
moratorium as an alternative approach. Peppers,
however, is another
special case where human dignity is concerned.
Dignity is not on everyones mind. Again, its just one
of those "virtues."
You mentioned the Brian Peppers article, which an
editor apparently dispatched with appropriately. I
think the Qabal should follow this example of NPOV
pushing.
I see no harm in
keeping a verifiable, limited page about [[Eon8]]
for the time being.
I am very wary of viral marketing crap, but this
seems to be a
harmless experiment without a clear commercial
motive.
"Verifiability" would appear to be limited to 1) its a
site, and 2) that "Mike" runs it. The Wikinews article
called it "mysterious," and quoted its stated
"purpose" as "to determine the reactions of the
internet public to lack of information." This pissed
me off enough to write to the Wikien Qabal. Its a joke
site, with a claimed "purpose", who's real purpose
appears to have been to gain legitimacy by memeing WP.
Applying our existing policies seems more important
to me than keeping
the encyclopedia free of "trivial" content. With 1.2
million articles,
including a page dedicated to anthropomorphized
operating systems
([[List of OS-tans]]) and an entire category of
lists of fictional
animals, that strikes me as a rather quixotic
enterprise.
Quixotic? I'm nothing but Quixotic.
-S
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