oh, i forgot, here's the current page, live: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Lotu5
and here's the deletion log: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/DJ_Lotu5 Consider the fact that governments collecting information about people which they cannot contest is often a main argument against surveillance. Apparently, wikipedia has ascended to a similar status if one cannot make changes to one's own life history. > Or a notable artist? > > Google does, apparently. Or Google News more specifically. > > I added a simple, straightforward page for myself, DJ lotu5, so that I > could help expand the knowledge about mixed reality performance art in > wikipedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality ] and the range of > practices listed on the New Media Art [ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media_art ] page. > > Well, apparently you're not allowed to represent yourself on wikipedia at > all, and so admitting that I had created the page became grounds for > speedy deletion. At the objection of two people, the article was > considered for deletion, not speedily or instantly deleted. > > Finally two editors came to "consensus" on my deletion because my name > only has one hit for it in Google News. I think this does a great job of > showing what kind of knowledge Wikipedia actually contains, knowledge > gained from mass media sources. Apparently the editors of Wikipedia think > that a number of hits from Google News is a good estimation of the value > of an artist, or a person for that matter. > > For details, see: > > http://bang.calit2.net/tts/notable-life/ > > Apparently, I'm a case of a "non-notable autobiography". Thanks, > Wikipedia. > > ciao, > > lotu5 > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
