[WikiEN-l] You really don't get it

[Bryan Derksen]

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2007 at 20:42:24 -0600, Bryan Derksen 
> <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> {{fact}}. Put together a listing of these biographies, publicize it, and
>> if they really are so egregiously libelous I expect editors would start
>> swarming all over them like rabid deletionist weasels.
> 
> I've been keeping a list of the various squabbles, skirmishes, 
> kerfluffles, etc., that have occurred when Wikipedia articles and 
> their subjects were at cross purposes for some reason.  They exhibit 
> various degrees of reasonability and unreasonability both on the part 
> of what was published on Wikipedia and what reaction the subject had 
> to it.
> 
> http://dan.tobias.name/controversies/cyber/wiki.html

That's a nice little collection there. It's pushing midnight so I can't
do an exhaustive examination but the random ones I've sampled so far
look like they've come to what I'd call good conclusions - most of them
simply resulting in heavily referenced and cleaned-up articles, but
including at least one so far where the subject of a biography said "I'm
non-notable, delete me!" and the resulting AfD concluded "he's right you
know." So it does happen sometimes. :)