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Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by jacques_chester on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @11:35AM (#4910948)
And that, right there, is the ratchet function which has shut the door on wikipedia.

Insiders can quickly undo anything. They are familiar with the tools and the procedures.

You might have contributed for the rest of your life. That potential stream of valuable contributions is now lost to wikipedia, potentially forever.

Now compound that over every single expert to whom so much was promised by the interface, and from whom the promise was removed by wikipedians.

Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by rsync on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @12:35PM (#4911341)
Bingo.

I just experienced this myself merely days ago.

No details. Just a well formed, minor contribution to an article that was insta-deleted because of "notability".

Which was news to me because, while I am aware articles themselves need to be notable, now some folks are enforcing notability on subsets of articles. In this case, a single row in a table listing like items.

Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by pekk on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @01:19PM (#4911618)
Meanwhile, for every object ever drawn in an anime, that anime MUST be mentioned in the article for the object. Because this is notable content, you see...

Wikipedia, 2030: "The Holocaust was also mentioned in episode #22 of Robot Cheerleader Girl, where Tanaka-san fell headfirst into a bucket while giving a speech about it."

Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by tptacek on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @09:22PM (#4913808)
Which article?