[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] More on page deletions...

[Frederick Noronha]

This page on a prominent alternate global media event is being called
"blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or
person".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios
To my mind, it is a listing of themes at the conference, and
participants, together with some background (including past
conferences) that led to the growth of the network. Could others
please give their inputs on this? FN

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Frederick Noronha <fred at bytesforall.org>
Date: 20-Apr-2007 11:17
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] More on page deletions...
To: wikipedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org


Numbers are important. But I don't think everything can be judged by
numbers alone.

(Someone was asking on a journalism mailing list how 30+ US lives
match up with 190+ in Iraq as far as the mainstream media goes! Then,
if everything went by numbers alone, one-seventh of the Wikipedia's
content should have focussed on India, and about one-sixth on China.
But we know that doesn't happen! So, we seem to be facing the pinch
both ways! When it comes to non-inclusion, and when it comes to
deletion.)

Also, what happens when a network is based outside of the "cities that
matter"? Visibility is going to be a further issue, specially when
communication is in, say, Spanish! It's hard for me to imagine how
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemencia_Rodriguez gets tagged for
'non-notability'. Either someone is misunderstanding things here, or
the criteria is really bizarre. Take a look at the comment by BineMaya
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Clemencia_Rodriguez in response
to this.

These are issues that those building alternatives have to face up to.
We seem to be failing in reflecting diversity at a global scale. Are
we even trying? FN

On 20/04/07, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/20/07, Frederick Noronha <fred at bytesforall.org> wrote:
> > This page on a prominent alternate global media event is being called
> > "blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or
> > person".
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios
>
> I removed content on this from [[Ourmedia]] a year ago since the group
> had only 279 members and probably didn't deserve an article.
>
> Angela


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