Had I been aware of the vote while it was still going on, I would have voted to delete it,
mostly because I find Kim to be not all that notable. There are thousands of would-be
ninja masters, all with varying degrees of authenticity. Ashida Kim may is just another
face in the crowd.
From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Re: Dispute resolution attempt in the
Ashida Kim case
geni wrote:
On 10/4/05, Ryan W. (Merovingian)
<bigwiki(a)earthling.net> wrote:
I'm ready to get rid of the whole thing right
now.
It has survived AFD. I doubt you would get a different desscission a
second time around. The article is going no where.
The best paralell is probably [[sollog]].
The difference is that Sollog was in fact notable, with newspaper
articles and so on.
In this case, I feel that many of the 'keep' votes were unfortunately
emotional reactions to Mr. Kim's hostility and general cluelessness.
One huge problem with the article is that virtually nothing in it is
actually verifiable by third-party sources. All we have is back and
forth flamewars between "bullshido" and Ashida Kim himself. And, let me
be blunt here, none of them are going to win a Pulitzer Prize for clear
communication skills.
I will of course defer to the community in this matter; it is not for me
to say what the limits of notability and verifiability are, at least not
directly. But I do ask that people set aside any emotional desire to
fight Mr. Kim's insolence by forcing him to accept that we have a right
to have an article about him.
Yes, we have a right. But, we don't care. He and his little soi disant
ninja friends can go off and play their miniscule mock macho games
elsewhere.
--Jimbo
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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to
the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." -Jimmy Wales, July
2004
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