[WikiEN-l] Deleting Chess Strategies and Chess Tactics will make Wikipedia a unique encyclopedia at least

Keith Old keithold at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 04:15:16 UTC 2007


On 7/16/07, Giggy <g1ggyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting.  But let's just hope common sense prevails...
>
> On 7/16/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/15/07, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > But we don't need to speak in the abstract.  Take some of today's AfD
> > > entries, for instance: they include [[Bubbles the Clown]], [[Katie
> > > Hopkins]], [[Chess strategy]] and [[Chess tactics]] -- all of which
> > > (even the first) are well written, contributed to by many people, well
> > > to very-well referenced or linked, and in the latter two cases have
> > > been around for five years.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > So, [[Bubbles the Clown]] was nominated by an editor who had been
> > editing for less than 36 hours, [[Katie Hopkins]] by an editor who has
> > been editing for less than 30 days,  plus we're apparently the type of
> > encyclopedia that has to question whether Rock Climbing and Chess
> > Strategies are notable.
> >
> > Interesting.  But, really, something is going on in AfD.  These are
> > sock puppet accounts created by beligerant AfD deletionists who have
> > been caught out on various things--like probably the editor who
> > deleted stuff from an article then nominated it for deletion based
> > upon what he'd deleted not being there, is back.
> >
> > I still think it's a secret contest.
> >
> > KP
> >
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Giggy,

So far it is as it generally does in AfD.

Regards


*Keith Old*


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