Fuckin' Wikipedia, man...
Alright, I am going to admit that I won't stop using Wikipedia as a resource any time soon, because it's so convenient and has such a wide spread of information.
That said, I would like to propose that some of their rules are shit, and that reading the debates on whether or not to delete an article - especially if it's an article on something you happen to like, and want to keep - is the most infuriating thing in the world.
Case in point: Starslip Crisis, by Kristofer Straub. A pretty damn popular webcomic these days, whether or not you folks have heard of it. After the Wiki entry for Straub's OTHER comic, Checkerboard Nightmare, was suggested for deletion, and the heated debate and abuse of power by moderators caused by that, Straub decided to suggest his own page for deletion to see what would happen. He created a ton of fake usernames - which the moderators are supposed to investigate - to support the deletion.
In the Checkerboard Nightmare debate, the moderators discounted the votes of EVERY voter who had "low" numbers of edits on Wikipedia (the benchmark seems arbitrary). Coincidentally or not, almost all of these discounted votes were in favor of keeping the article.
In the rigged Starslip Crisis debate, all of the fake names Straub used to support deletion were newly created and had very low edits, but none were discounted. Oddly enough, a fan that Straub didn't know voted to keep the page, then used a fake name to vote again to keep it. THAT vote was discounted.
You can read the whole thing here: http://www.halfpixel.com/2007/02/15/delete-wikipedia/
...Basically I hate the Internet sometimes.
That said, I would like to propose that some of their rules are shit, and that reading the debates on whether or not to delete an article - especially if it's an article on something you happen to like, and want to keep - is the most infuriating thing in the world.
Case in point: Starslip Crisis, by Kristofer Straub. A pretty damn popular webcomic these days, whether or not you folks have heard of it. After the Wiki entry for Straub's OTHER comic, Checkerboard Nightmare, was suggested for deletion, and the heated debate and abuse of power by moderators caused by that, Straub decided to suggest his own page for deletion to see what would happen. He created a ton of fake usernames - which the moderators are supposed to investigate - to support the deletion.
In the Checkerboard Nightmare debate, the moderators discounted the votes of EVERY voter who had "low" numbers of edits on Wikipedia (the benchmark seems arbitrary). Coincidentally or not, almost all of these discounted votes were in favor of keeping the article.
In the rigged Starslip Crisis debate, all of the fake names Straub used to support deletion were newly created and had very low edits, but none were discounted. Oddly enough, a fan that Straub didn't know voted to keep the page, then used a fake name to vote again to keep it. THAT vote was discounted.
You can read the whole thing here: http://www.halfpixel.com/2007/02/15/delete-wikipedia/
...Basically I hate the Internet sometimes.