On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:51:23 +0200, "Erik Moeller" eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
The page was now deleted, in spite of no consensus, and in spite of a very large amount of blog coverage and a newspaper report in Politiken about it.
There was strong consensus to keep among new, unregistered and otherwise normally-ignored editors, and what looked to me like consensus to delete (especially on balance of arguments) among editors with any kind of history.
I am also uneasy when we keep something which is asserted to be of massive global significance on the basis of a single reference, in a publication which is hardly mainstream. We kept The Game (game) on the basis of one reference in one Flemish-language newspaper - which hardly gives credibility to the idea of this as a massive global phenomenon, as described in the article. Actually the article should say it is a game described in De. Morgen which blah blah blah... until we get more references. It stretches credibility somewhat that a genuinely famous thing could escape all the special web sections of all the mainstream newspapers and journals, including the BBC which has frequent columns from the likes of Bill Thompson on things happening on "teh Intarwebs".
Given that we are all internet users, many of us obsessively so, if we have not heard of it then it may well be that the arm-wavers are wrong about its significance.
Guy (JzG)