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For the last few months I've been a huge proponent of Wikipedia. There wasn't a subject I could think of that didn't atleast have a "stub" (a one liner or two) that was atleast the start of something informative...

...Then I learned about a different side of Wikipedia. The "VfD" section, where power hungry goons decide what is worthy of being documented, and what must burn. I'm sure this was once intended to be a place to remove joke articles, but has since turned into an abusive tool of censorship.

Those of you unfamiliar with Wikipedia may disregard this, others may find the links below (and the comments) quite interesting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Remorse_1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/PabloDraw

and my favorite, of course...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Spinsane

Agree or disagree with whats happening, but atleast KNOW. Wikipedia will delete any article with a 2/3rds vote of approval.

adding yourself and your friends to wikipedia is somewhat meaningless and i find it obnoxious. perhaps adding groups and listing members instead would be an idea.

SCENERS UNITE.

Let's give them a piece of our mind =)

i've always found it stupid and, well yes, obnoxious to add information on contemporary non-important people to wikipedia and such.

and from this we can conclude that the underground shouldnt try to be documented. :)

Hey Rad Man, it is a good thing to extend the wikipedia but please don't add every little thing. :)

Btw, "This is an encyclopedia, not a webguide" is the information you should remember when adding a new article the next time. ;)

When in history has an encyclopedia ever been the property of the people? The internet makes it possible.

"Thousands of other groups tried to be important, but in the end it was only iCE and ACiD." <- lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

It's not like they're voting to remove the demo scene or ANSI art from the wikipedia... They just want to get *your homepage* out of there. :-)

btw, please update your pilgrimage advertising ;)

If I could thumb this thread down, I would. I'm all for deleting useless crap in wikipedia..

stop crying about useless crap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaD_Man
megalomaniac crap

adding yourself and your friends to wikipedia is somewhat meaningless and i find it obnoxious. perhaps adding groups and listing members instead would be an idea.
Agreed

i've always found it stupid and, well yes, obnoxious to add information on contemporary non-important people to wikipedia and such.
Agreed

If I could thumb this thread down, I would. I'm all for deleting useless crap in wikipedia..
Agreed

rad man, you're really making yourself look awfully stupid now. wikipedia is supposed to be about stuff that matters.

radman is a narcist, we knew that from the start.

oh, and i couldn't agree more with taking these sites off wikipedia

i think there's something missing on the wikipedia page here:
"Since 2004, Rad Man has refashioned himself as a pitiful moron, devored by his lust of recognizing, which led him to a terribly obscene hunt for fame through websites such as pouët or wikipedia."

lol. in all seriousness, removing junk from wikipedia does not decrease the value of it as a meaningful resource at all, actually it improves signal to noise ratio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paniq - but this is not important right now.

Honestly, I don't know.
I mean, one might consider Rad Man as one of the leading individuals of the textmode/ASCII-scene - in that case, upholding correctness, he has the right to have a wikipedia entry. (After all he IS more known than an average Joe Artist.)
On the other hand, it still sounds a lot like vanity, and the article's relevance is a valid debate...

Fact is that in a huge community like Wikipedia, it's very hard to draw the line where information starts to become relevant.

I'm not going to vote here.
Just my two cents.

putting yourself on wikipedia is nonsense, cause face it, you are not important!

Gargaj: The german version of paniq's wp-text got deleted within days. We don't know, why this stands that long. On the other hand, there was a pupil with a lecture for school about paniq...
Maybe he is more important than whe thought. ;)

radman = wikipedofiel

isn't this one of the reasons why people start their own niche-oriented wiki?

I mean, DAMN.

everybody knows that you have to be dead to become really famous