...
It seems like they are running a seek-and-destroy against every Brin
stuff in wikipedia. After Alvin, the trolls will delete Streaker.
The Troll is targeting for deletion: Gubru, G'Kek, EarthClan,
Tymbrimi, Streaker (David Brin), Jophur, and Alvin Hph-wayuo.
...
If we want the articles
-Original Message-
From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of David Hobby
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:42 PM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/
...
It seems like
Trent Shipley wrote:
David Brin is an important science fiction author so he merits
mention in Wikipedia. The Jijo trilogy merits mention. Each book in
the trilogy merits an article. However, each book is based on an
ensemble cast. Alvin is an ensemble character in trilogy by an
author
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From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 6:35 AM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/
It seems like they are
Julia wrote:
The Troll is targeting for deletion: Gubru, G'Kek, EarthClan,
Tymbrimi, Streaker (David Brin), Jophur, and Alvin Hph-wayuo.
It must be a Brin-hater.
Any clue to the identity of the troll?
Who cares? Unless you are the owner of a Death Note, there's nothing
we could do.
...
It seems like they are running a seek-and-destroy against every Brin
stuff in wikipedia. After Alvin, the trolls will delete Streaker.
The Troll is targeting for deletion: Gubru, G'Kek, EarthClan, Tymbrimi,
Streaker (David Brin), Jophur, and Alvin Hph-wayuo.
It must be a Brin-hater.
David Hobby wrote:
So the user is Abductive, and he seems to spend a lot
of time proposing articles for deletion.
It's probably an attack account: a sock puppet of a known
user, created to give anonimity to a coward behavior (if it
used the _real_ account, we might retaliate by proposing
Don't you also need a picture of his face for that?
-- Matt
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From: Alberto Monteiro albm...@centroin.com.br
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Tue, December 29, 2009 8:08:00 AM
Subject: RE: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III
Matt Grimaldi wrote:
It must be a Brin-hater.
Any clue to the identity of the troll?
Who cares? Unless you are the owner of a Death Note, there's nothing
we could do.
Don't you also need a picture of his face for that?
Yes - but it's easier to get the picture from the name than the
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
So the user is Abductive, and he seems to spend a lot
of time proposing articles for deletion.
It's probably an attack account: a sock puppet of a known
user, created to give anonimity to a coward behavior (if it
used the _real_
David Hobby wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hph-wayuo
Alberto--
Hi. I think you can make a good case to keep it,
since it involves a major character in a series
of popular science fiction novels.
No, not my language, not my place to battle. I've tried
to keep the Portuguese
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hph-wayuo
Alberto--
Hi. I think you can make a good case to keep it,
since it involves a major character in a series
of popular science fiction novels.
No, not my language, not my place to battle. I've tried
to
On 28/12/2009, at 11:23 AM, tship...@deru.com wrote:
Let's be more ambitious.
I've gone the other way and reduced the scope to just Uplift.
It's currently hosted on Wikia, and I've only just started dumping some of the
lists (along with the Alvin stub) from Wikipedia to it, so it's not an issue
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, tship...@deru.com wrote:
I did not send the original to the list. Feel free to forward this to the
list.
I'm partial to MediaWiki.
I have installed MediaWiki here:
http://www.nickarnett.net/sfwiki/
We can create a domain name for it and point it there
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote:
And... anybody have a logo?
Nick
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David Hobby wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hph-wayuo
Alberto--
Hi. I think you can make a good case to keep it,
since it involves a major character in a series
of popular science fiction novels.
No, not my language, not my place to
On 29/12/2009, at 3:44 AM, David Hobby wrote:
Alberto--
Wow, I guess it is my place to battle. I've been going
back and forth with the troll, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alvin_Hph-wayuo
Some of this is because I don't really understand his
criteria, or what the problem is
On 12/28/2009 5:18, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Yes, it's a stub, and fortunately so. Another stupid decision
made in the English wikipedia was that spoilers are _not_
marked as such. Just take a look a the article about
English Wikipedia does provide standard spoiler warning templates, but
Charlie Bell wrote:
On 29/12/2009, at 3:44 AM, David Hobby wrote:
Alberto--
Wow, I guess it is my place to battle. I've been going back and
forth with the troll, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alvin_Hph-wayuo
Some of this is because I don't really understand his criteria, or
what
Let's be more ambitious.
A science fiction and fantasy literary wiki! (And just when I needed a new
project too.)
--Original Message--
From: Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
To: Brin-L
ReplyTo: Brin-L
Subject: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/
Sent: Dec 27, 2009 4:56 PM
Article
I could host it along with the list. I even set up a wiki there,
which I'm not using.
Nick
On 12/27/09, tship...@deru.com tship...@deru.com wrote:
Let's be more ambitious.
A science fiction and fantasy literary wiki! (And just when I needed a new
project too.)
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Trent Shipley wrote:
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A quick Google doesn't turn up any strong scifi literary wikis. Given
the structure of a well designed wiki, David Brin's Uplift Universe
should be a viable category effectively acting as a sub-wiki. In short,
you can have both.
...
From: Alberto Vieira Ferreira
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote:
I could host it along with the list. I even set up a wiki there,
which I'm not using.
Sent that from my phone while waiting to see Sherlock Holmes (quite good,
but I had trouble understanding some of the dialog for
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