Re: Troll Wars 2: Report from Wikipedia

2010-03-19 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
David Hobby wrote:

 The proposer, Abductive, may even have been right.  But
 that does not mean that he is not a troll.

The troll sent me a message. I didn't even bother
to reply a f-y.

Alberto Monteiro

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Troll Wars 2: Report from Wikipedia

2010-03-18 Thread David Hobby

Alberto--

In the on-going saga of the pruning of Wikipedia, the
article Streaker_(David_Brin) was proposed for deletion,
but kept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Streaker_(David_Brin)#Streaker_.28David_Brin.29

The proposer, Abductive, may even have been right.  But
that does not mean that he is not a troll.

The asymmetry of the process bothers me.  All he has to
do is put the article up for deletion, claiming it has
no valid references in secondary sources.  Then anybody
who wants to keep the article has to scramble to find
the references.  I'm sure I spent more time defending the
article than he did attacking it.

---David

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