[WikiEN-l] My favorite Wikipedia article ever

[Todd Allen]

Bryan Derksen wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>   
>> On 7/7/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>     
>>> One of my old favorites is up for deletion right now, for the fourth
>>> time, and looks likely to go the way of the dodo this time around.
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28person%29>. Just in time
>>> for the release of the new Transformers movie, too.
>>>
>>> It was heavily referenced, non-controversial, and a fun little piece of
>>> trivia. I really don't understand why some editors feel the need to get
>>> rid of such stuff. There are days that Wikipedia makes me depressed.
>>>       
>> Why can't it be heavily referenced, non-controversial, fun little
>> piece of trivia in the article for the character?  Why do we need an
>> article just for him or for every fun little piece of trivia someone
>> comes across?
>>     
>
> At various points in history it _has_ been, but [[Optimus Prime]] is a
> very large article. Very large articles tend to be split into
> sub-articles like this.
>
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My personal favorite is [[Meow Wars]]. I'm frankly amazed anyone could
argue to keep it. It's an interesting little bit of Usenet trivia (and I
vaguely remember it going on myself), but we don't need an article on
every idiotic Usenet incident, "sourced" to nothing but Usenet archives
and a few nostalgia essays.

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