[WikiEN-l] Deletion for its own sake (was MUD history)

[Alvaro García]

Apple!?


--
Alvaro

On 14-01-2009, at 11:29, "The Cunctator" <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, just profoundly sad that Wikipedia is in what seems to be an  
> inexorable
> decline. But idea-based projects generally have about seven years of
> innovation before they lose steam (see SRI, Xerox PARC, GNU, Apple).  
> Perhaps
> Wikipedia will enjoy a rebirth, but I expect its natural successor  
> to emerge
> under a different umbrella. Fortunately, the important thing for  
> posterity
> is that Wikipedia's core assets are under a free license.
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM, White Cat
> <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You high or something?
>> - White Cat
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:36 PM, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Long live deletionism!
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke  
>>> <wikipedia at zog.org
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2009/1/13 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <
>> wikipedia at zog.org
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone any idea where I could find the original AfD? It seems to
>> have
>>>>>> disappeared:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Threshold_(online_game)&oldid=263769784 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Threshold_%28online_game%29&oldid=263769784 
>> >
>>> <
>>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Threshold_%28online_game%29&oldid=263769784
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The edit summary just says "oops".
>>>>>
>>>>> The deletion log helps in cases like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FThreshold_(online_game 
>> )<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FThreshold_%28online_game%29 
>> >
>>> <
>>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FThreshold_%28online_game%29
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "OTRS Courtesy blank"
>>>>>
>>>>> What probably happened is that someone who was unhappy with some  
>>>>> of
>>>>> the things said in the heat of the moment e-mailed the Wikipedia  
>>>>> OTRS
>>>>> service and asked for a courtesy deletion.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The entire discussion needed to be deleted, apparently. The page  
>>>> now
>>> reads
>>>> "The result was *delete*." with the rest of the deletion summary in
>> html
>>>> comment.
>>>>
>>>> I'm officially weirded out. :)
>>>>
>>>> Michel
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