[[Memory_alpha]], which is a previous featured article, is up for deletion. Putting the question of wp:snow and wp:point aside I was wondering. Has a featured article ever been deleted?
The only way I can see it happening is if the article is later revealed to be a hoax or a copyvio.
I dunno if it ever happened, but yeah, that are pretty much the only possible reasons.
Mgm
On 3/5/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
[[Memory_alpha]], which is a previous featured article, is up for deletion. Putting the question of wp:snow and wp:point aside I was wondering. Has a featured article ever been deleted?
The only way I can see it happening is if the article is later revealed to be a hoax or a copyvio.
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On 05/03/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
[[Memory_alpha]], which is a previous featured article, is up for deletion. Putting the question of wp:snow and wp:point aside I was wondering. Has a featured article ever been deleted? The only way I can see it happening is if the article is later revealed to be a hoax or a copyvio.
I !voted "delete nominator".
- d.
On 3/5/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I !voted "delete nominator".
Funny that the guy who responded to your comment first seemed to be in the "delete" camp though he didn't "vote", later said he thought it should be kept. Also, the nominator is an admin, not an SPA or someone who lost an edit war so I think he is trying to do one of two things.
1. He is trying to demonstrate that because it is possible to make a good faith AFD nom on an article about a website which a "reasonable person" would conclude belongs on wikipedia, that the guidelines on web notability are flawed.
2. He is using a "snow nom" as a cluestick to get MA's editors to clean up and properly source the article.
On 3/6/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/5/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I !voted "delete nominator".
Funny that the guy who responded to your comment first seemed to be in the "delete" camp though he didn't "vote", later said he thought it should be kept. Also, the nominator is an admin, not an SPA or someone who lost an edit war so I think he is trying to do one of two things.
- He is trying to demonstrate that because it is possible to make a
good faith AFD nom on an article about a website which a "reasonable person" would conclude belongs on wikipedia, that the guidelines on web notability are flawed.
- He is using a "snow nom" as a cluestick to get MA's editors to
clean up and properly source the article.
IMO (possibly bad faith), there is definitely a POINT being made somewhere. I commented to that effort before reading David and your own posts here, simply because it is aggravating to see Afds filed without any attempt being made to (shock,horror) improve the encyclopedia first, and only delete articles if no other approach seems reasonable.
It could also be that the admin has a grudge against Wikia and was hoping to sneak it through while lots of other noise was occupying people, or just to create more controversy.
-- John
On 3/5/07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
It could also be that the admin has a grudge against Wikia and was hoping to sneak it through while lots of other noise was occupying people, or just to create more controversy.
More likely a grudge against wikis than Wikia specifically. Of the 5 wikis he listed for deletion yesterday, only two of them are hosted by Wikia. The others were the Valve Developer Community, Wikocracy, and Openpolitics.ca.
Angela