--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The thorny bit was talking about WP:AFD and its ... little ways. He sprung on me in the interview that he had created an article on himself, it was deleted as "vanity", several of his readers recreated it, it was deleted all those times too, and apparently some of the deletion discussion comments were more than a little spiky.
So please, when discussing things on AFD ... FOR FUCK SAKE, COOL IT IN YOUR COMMENTS AND TREATMENT OF OUTSIDERS. AND PEER-PRESSURE OTHERS TO DO SO. Thanks.
Well, you were likely being deliberately ironic, but still, it's not particularly convincing to shout obscenities at Wikipedians encouraging them to "cool it" with their treatment of others :)
Personally, I don't think it's a PR problem to have deleted a vanity page from some podcaster whose best claim for notability appears to be he "has listeners, so is doing better for notability than a lot of podcasters".
How about we talk about something that vaguely matters? I think it's a much more serious PR problem for the English Wikipedia that the German Wikipedia is lightyears ahead of us in distributing CDs/DVDs/print editions. Where's English Wikipedia 1.0? I heard that the plan was to have it finished by December 2004...
-- Matt
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
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