dunno take it to deletion review. I'm a sucker but wouldn't have
passed you. Next time just find all the guys you edit with to comment
with you. recreate under something in brackets post main text - it
will def get prod and ur fine 4 a week or two!
On 09/06/07, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/9/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name>
wrote:
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?
As I anticipated, the only reason the article was deleted was a lack of
sources. That's perfectly fine.
What's not perfectly fine is how lazy people are when it comes to looking
for sources. I often see quotations tagged with {{fact}} that have sources
readily available on Google (I just select a random phrase from the quote,
plug it in, and the search results nearly always yield something useful).
Likewise,
http://www.google.com/search?q=Glurge yields more than enough
sources on the phrase's etymology (though that's more for Wiktionary) and
background. Is it really that hard to Google something?
Johnleemk
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