[Wikipedia-l] More on page deletions...

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 11:55:57 UTC 2007


2007/4/20, Frederick Noronha <fred at bytesforall.org>:
> This page on a prominent alternate global media event is being called
> "blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or
> person".
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios
> To my mind, it is a listing of themes at the conference, and
> participants, together with some background (including past
> conferences) that led to the growth of the network. Could others
> please give their inputs on this? FN

Really, why are the participants, themes etcetera of a conference
things to put on Wikipedia? As far as I can see, 90% of the page would
do better to be put on their own website. Speedy deletion seems rather
crude indeed, but it still indeeds reeks of advertising.

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