Didn't anyone notice
this?
SchuminWebÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
, who has apparently held a grudge against OMM writer
Erik Wolpaw,
somehow managed to get the Wikipedia article about OMM (an old gaming site) deleted.
Schumin tried
before in January.
The only vote I can see is from
MelanieNÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
. Girlfriend? Sock?
Among the results:
Boing Boing had
considerable coverage of it. Note some of the comments:
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Sometimes I wish I could get back money I donated to them. I doubt I'll ever donate to wiki again.
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This is standard Wikipedia. It's such a corrupt incestuous sausagefest. 'Free Encyclopedia' my ass.
I've given up even trying to bother getting useful info past the neckbeards who run the place - there are just too many hidden toes that are easily trod upon.
Oops! Neckbeards, ha ha.
And
here it is on Slashdot. Result: similar comments.
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You know what should make your scratch your head? The problem you have just described at the same time happens to be the very essence and fundamental principle of Wikipedia. That anyone, including stupid morons, trolls with hidden agenda (competitors), and outright psychopaths can edit it any and every second, repeatedly and infinitely.
It follows that Wikipedia is, and has inherently been from the very beginning, a fundamentally flawed experiment. Thanks god Google is starting to realize this and is moving the Wikipedia result to SERPS position #5, while the first 4 links point to the authoritative or official site (if one exists).
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I used to contribute a fair amount to Wikipedia to get my brain going in the morning. I quit doing so a couple years ago, because the whole infighting and "notability" crap was ridiculous. Every single character from a book, movie, cartoon, video game, anime (pokemon, etc) gets a many-paged detailed entry while real people quickly get the brush because someone gets a thorn in their ass over something. And those "somethings" are hard to pin down. Some entries surprisingly don't exist, while others (someone with a podcast you've never heard of or who is supposedly some self-described social media expert, etc) gets an entry. That idiot from "Hot For Words" even has a wikipedia entry.
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Firstly, I won't be donating to Wikipedia again. This is not because I'm an OMM fanboy taking my bat home in a huff, although I am also that. But actually, it's because this story has made me look into Wikipedia more, and apparently this shit is rife. I guess I should have known that, but I'd always been scared to check because I still had some faith in one human endeavour and was happy to let things stay that way, until I felt some pressing need to know otherwise. Well, game over on that front. Back to total misanthropy for me.
Secondly, it's actually quite an interesting read because the Schumin guy who nominated for deletion, is evidently really, really, pathetic. And not in a kind of sad and disappointing, move along cowboy way, but actually to a degree that's almost gripping. This article highlights an almost iconic exemplar of the form of pathetic, to the degree that it's actually compelling.
To whit, and as best as I can tell from summaries, a man who is mocked - for being pathetic no less - by a popular gaming culture website waits a DECADE for revenge, whilst the world moves on around him, and the revengee behind the site goes on to pen dialogue for a video game that many people rightly consider one of the genuinely enduring classics of the new age.
I've seen a
lot of buzz about this on gaming forums.
Mr. Schumin is quite the classic Wikipedia admin-troll. Look at the vote in his
2007 RFA.
Now look at the vote when he
first tried in 2006.
There are numerous complaints about him in AN/I and Wikiquette.
And btw, he
cooperates with Cirt when Scientology articles come up.....
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