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Re:The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History by Turing_Machine on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @08:43PM (#4913668)
Yep. I once had a page deleted within a minute or two after creating it for (as I recall) "duplication" and "not enough content". It wasn't a duplicate at all (it was about a metalworking tool that might look superficially similar to a woodworking tool, if you don't know anything about tools, which the editor didn't), and one reason there wasn't enough "content" was that I was still uploading the original images that I'd shot myself specifically to illustrate the article. I did get the delete rolled back, but got chided for "incivility" along the way (funny, I would have thought that deleting someone else's work when you don't have a clue about the topic of the article would count as "uncivil").

I lost enthusiasm for contributing to Wikipedia after that and haven't done much there since. Occasionally I correct minor-yet-annoying spelling errors, but that's about it.

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