[clug] Wikipedia and Deletionism

Andrew Donnellan ajdlinux at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 22:09:47 MDT 2010


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Karun Dambiec <kdambiec at fsfe.org> wrote:
> This is the reason that was given to delete the Australian National
> University page recently:
>
> Non notable university. Ive never heard of this university back home in the
> US.
>
> It looks like you can just propose something for deletion as you havent
> heard of it, or dont like it.

The proposal to delete the ANU page was made by an anonymous user,
124.176.55.225.

According to WHOIS, that IP is allocated to Telstra's office in
Canberra. So it's not US bias in this case, it's just vandalism by
someone probably in Canberra.

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