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29 July 2006

Wikipedia notes The wikilawyers are out in force these days. [More:]
* The Biographies of Living Persons issue, big since the Seigenthaler thing, has got some folks thinknig we shoudl automatically delete any biography if the person requests. Except for maybe world leaders or something. This would satisfy some spectrum of privacy and dignity concerns but make the place considerably less useful.
* MySpace links to band pages are getting removed as linkspam, and some folks think we should have a policy of only including MySpace if it's linked to from the artist's website or mentioned in a news source. It's amazing how quickly this has happened but it's very often the most up-to-date site a band has. This is an offshoot of the Verifiability problem related to Biographies of Living Persons. A little paranoid, if you ask me.
* Wikipedia is no longer a fun place to find stuff like Chuck Cunningham syndrome (on the cusp of deletion). Stuff like that is getting nuked as Original Research. I see the point but again, less fun.
* Somebody copied my work without attribution, so I got to send a violation letter for the first time. (I probably could have a couple other times, but this was a particularly egregious use my personal editing that they slapped their own copyright notice on.)
Administrator! Please hope more insdie me!
posted by stilicho 29 July | 22:57
I have between little and no idea what any of this is about. *blinks*
*envies*
posted by stilicho 29 July | 23:21
For an alternative perspective, check out the wikipedia discussion page for Crystal Gail Mangum.
posted by mischief 29 July | 23:24
You know what? Fuck "no original research." That is what makes wikipedia wikipedia. That attitude is part of what keeps wikipedia from becoming a reputable original source. That, and the fact that anyone can edit it.
posted by Eideteker 29 July | 23:33
This confirms my suspicions that ship-in-a-bottle building needs to come back as a hobby; people are lost out there, tracking shitty sitcoms to fill the void.

Full House:
  • Michelle's best friend Denise vanishes after the seventh season.
  • Stephanie's friend Mickie also vanishes, to be replaced by Gia.
posted by cmonkey 29 July | 23:35
I'm gonna go sit with weretable and scratch my head.
posted by fenriq 29 July | 23:35
Um. Yup. I know what wikipedia is and go there to look stuff up sometimes but I am getting scared.


I'll go sit with with fenriq and weretable now.
posted by arse_hat 29 July | 23:56
cmonkey, i'll build the spar if you'll lay the keel.
posted by stilicho 30 July | 00:10
I more insided you, stilicho. It was good for me... was it good for you?

I understood all that stuff, you guys... and I'm not even that much of a wiki buff. The three commandments of Wiki are verifiability, no original research, and neutral point of view. Those pages each have a "this policy in a nutshell" summation at the top of the page.

Here's the info on Seigenthaler.

So, who copied your work, stilicho? Tell!
posted by taz 30 July | 00:15
Ana Voog at MutantNation (NSFW). The text on the page is the article as I revised it sometime last year (not that it matters, really, it just gives me standing to ding them).

Also, it looks like the same deal with all the "beautiful mutants".
posted by stilicho 30 July | 00:26
And while I've got all your attention, download her music (in this case by her old band, The Blue Up?).
posted by stilicho 30 July | 01:58
Thanks!
posted by taz 30 July | 03:56
Ugh, don't get me started on my anti-wikipedia rant. And STILL I can't seem to live without it.
posted by muddgirl 30 July | 08:32
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