[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny

Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia zzyzx11 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 23 05:06:26 UTC 2006


Ugh. I am tempted to merge that Jeremy Rosenfeld article into something 
else. I highly doubt it can be expanded beyond that single paragraph.

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>From: Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny
>Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:27:30 -0800
>
>STEFAN CLAUDIU TIULEA wrote:
> > Jimbo also deleted one of my stub articles, but it
> > seems that the community overruled against his
> > decission and for so far, decided to keep the article.
> > :)
> >
> > 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jeremy_Rosenfeld
>
>This is absurd.  What an idiotic article.
>
>Let me say again now what I said when I deleted it the first time, but
>with more detailed.  Even though I'm wonderful and charming and
>obviously the most noteworthy person on the planet (ha), it is still not
>the case that every person with whom I have had contact needs a
>biography in Wikipedia.
>
>I consider this bio to be a terrible invasion of privacy for Jeremy, and
>an embarassment for Wikipedia.
>
>"A-bit-stronger-than-weak Keep there exist a controversy about who
>presented Jimbo with idea about wiki. Therefore, this guy is
>controversial enough to became notable."
>
>That's such an overwhelming non sequitur I just don't even know where to
>begin.  Jeremy Rosenfeld is controversial?  I think not.  He's a nice
>guy who wandered into my office one day to show me a cool website.  The
>one quote we can come up with is that Larry doesn't remember him well?
>
>I think I'm going to have to take a serious look at AfD, because if it
>is this far broken, there's something seriously seriously worse about it
>than I thought.
>
>
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