I glanced at the article; the facts are there, the tone could be more objective.
SCDC seems pretty clearly defined to me: Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons. Might be good to put SCDC in parens after that reference, for better clarity. ~ Jon On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote: > Reasonable critique appeared on the Talk page for SFC today: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Students_for_Free_Culture > > "Complete rewrite necessary, AfD possible > > Currently article seems to fail WP:NOTABILITY, and is a huge > WP:SOAPBOX. The only question which is not clear to me is if it is > 100% WP:SOAP, or just 99% WP:SOAP. In addition, it is a complete mess > (just one example: what is "SCDC" which is referred to all over the > place? It is not defined in the article at all). If somebody can clean > it up, removing all the inappropriate primary sources (primary source > for statements like "has over 30 chapters" is certainly inappropriate) > and speculations (example: "These protests may have served as > inspiration"), and also to establish connection between 3rd-party > articles and this organization (in particular, to provide proof that > chapters indeed consider themselves as a part of "Students for Free > Culture" - even primary source statement will be IMHO ok in this case > but to qualify as WP:RS, it should come from chapter, not from > "Students for Free Culture"!), it would be great. If not, I will try > to perform such clean up myself, but as I don't know certain things > (for example, how to prove relations between chapters and umbrella > organization), it might result in removing too many references, which > in turn might eventually result in AfD (if after cleaning up > irrelevant/unprovable stuff there are no references to prove > notability - it doesn't belong on Wikipedia). Ipsign (talk) 05:57, 29 > November 2010 (UTC)" > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- Jon Lebkowsky +1 512.762-6547 http://weblogsky.com twitter: http://twitter.com/jonl facebook: http://facebook.com/jonlebkowsky linkedin: http://linkedin.com/jonlebkowsky
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