[clug] Wikipedia and Deletionism

[Tomasz Ciolek]

 wait till 1 April and post it to Slashdot...  

TMC

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 07:59:09AM +1100, Paul Wayper wrote:
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> On 25/03/10 07:13, Karun Dambiec wrote:
> > On 25/03/10 6:48 AM, Karun Dambiec wrote:
> >> Has wikipedia's deletionists gone too far?
> >> I noticed this morning they are trying to get deleted the page about
> >> the Australian National University.
> >> The same seems to be happening for a lot of free software like DWM etc.
> >>
> >> Has anyone experienced the same with other free open source projects.
> >>
> >> Regards
> > Looks like the samba project entry is also proposed for deletion
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_%28software%29
> 
> Looks like a lot of these are spurious - the reason given for deleting SaMBa,
> for instance, is:
> 
> This software is not notable. It doesnt run on my windows computer, and so
> most of America has not heard of it or used it
> 
> It's a "joke".  Ignore it.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Paul
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