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Seven Day Roguelike entry up for deletion in Wikipedia
Aerton:
--- Quote from: Kornel Kisielewicz on July 22, 2007, 12:27 ---Now only DoomRL and Dwarf Fortress defend the current roguelike scene.
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Rogue, NetHack, Angband, Omega and others do not count?
Although the deletion trend is quite troubling...
zaimoni:
Regrettably, it doesn't seem to just be legitimate recreational articles up for deletion.
I've taken to backing up hard science pages as insurance during the current administrative policy panic (dating back to ~Jan 2007, and ongoing). I think I've seen some esoteric ones I didn't need get removed for no reason -- so just back them all up, as they clearly have no problems deleting anything that is both not Politically Correct and beyond their limited knowledge.
BDR:
I find the whole idea that any sort of pages relating to a topic that actually exists *have* to be deleted because of obscurity ludicrous. Is Wikipedia in danger of running out of room for more articles? Are pages that are only visited once every 10 years somehow a threat to Wikipedia security? Is 'fancruft' a threat to the nature of Wikipedia just because x% of the people aren't interested and thus producing an amount y of content revolving around said topic, or because it somehow makes Wikipedia look inferior to a normal encyclopedia even though part of what makes an encyclopedia good is completeness? What the *hell* happened to making Wikipedia a source of all human knowledge; who the **** became king and declared that they were the only ones who could rightfully know or determine what qualified as knowledge and what qualified as crap to delete from the human consciousness? I can see deleting joke pages, or pages revolving around topics made up specifically for seeing what you could get on the Wikipedia without anyone noticing, but when pages revolving around stuff that real people worked on and that you can see for yourself if you care to look beyond the normal edges of your computer screen and hangouts are equally deigned trash to be hauled, there's something seriously broken.
But the whole thing is massive, and probably will stick around for a while. Eventually something better designed and more sanely mantained will come along, and that will be the end of it; till then we'll just have to find smaller but nicer places to put information about this stuff. Those who care to look will come, and those who don't probably wouldn't appreciate it anyway.
Kornel Kisielewicz:
--- Quote from: Aerton on July 22, 2007, 19:57 ---
--- Quote from: Kornel Kisielewicz on July 22, 2007, 12:27 ---Now only DoomRL and Dwarf Fortress defend the current roguelike scene.
--- End quote ---
Rogue, NetHack, Angband, Omega and others do not count?
--- End quote ---
I said "current" scene :)
DisaffectedBeta:
What sort of articles have you had to back up, Zaimoni?
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