[WikiEN-l] I'm disappointed in Wikipedia.

[Daniel R. Tobias]

No, not for any of the stuff I'm getting into fights about lately, 
like cliques and BADSITES.  But for one of its article deletions.

You see, I was working on edits to one of my personal websites, in 
this case one about e-mail formatting and related technical and 
cultural issues ( http://mailformat.dan.info/ ).  I decided, in the 
course of talking about forwarded messages, to refer to the concept 
of "glurge", which is the sort of sickeningly-sweet motivational 
stuff (Norman Vincent Peale - ish) that gets regularly forwarded 
around the net.  Usually when I do something like that, I like to 
stick in an external link to some place that describes what I'm 
talking about, and lately Wikipedia is almost always my first choice 
to try to find one.  Unfortunately, it turns out that the Wikipedia 
article on "glurge" has been deleted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Glurge

Thus, I had to go to Snopes instead to find a link to the concept.

Wikipedia is often at its best as a place to find balanced, useful 
references about a variety of subcultural phenomena, Internet memes, 
and the like.  Why should we cut off our nose by deleting them?


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