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

[Alvaro García]

It went to a period of decline because Steve Jobs was fired. Then ha  
came back at 1998 and they released the iMac and the iBook, and some  
years later, on 2001, they released the iPhone. They continued  
anouncing good things. More iPods, the MacBooks came, the migration to  
Intel, and then, on 2007, came the iPhone. Talk about decline.


--
Alvaro

On 14-01-2009, at 16:14, "The Cunctator" <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apple was an engine of innovation from about 1976 to 1991 with  
> overlapping
> breakthrough projects (1976-1983: Apple I/II) (1978-1985: Macintosh)
> (1986-1992: Powerbook).  It then entered a period of decline,  
> reaching a
> nadir in the mid-nineties.
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Alvaro García <alvareo at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> <
>>>>>
>>>>
>> 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 
>> >
>>>> )<
>> 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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