[clug] Wikipedia and Deletionism
Robert Brockway
robert at timetraveller.org
Wed Mar 24 21:01:02 MDT 2010
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui_Cluster_Scheduler was nearly deleted. I
got involved and helped to save it. Maui is widely used in HPC.
Some people seriously suggested it was non-notable because it didn't run
on their MS-Windows PC. No joking that time unfortunately.
I also managed to get an AfD proposal withdrawn for "Boston bun" after I
pointed out a clear US bias in that case.
There are other articles I've helped to save after they were claimed to be
non-notable.
I've largely withdrawn from WP these days, after having been quite active
for a number of years. IMHO rules-lawyers are stiffling the processes
that led WP to be successful in the first place.
Rob
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