Articles that you don't expect NOT to be in Wikipedia Options

[Cock-up-over-conspiracy]

I'm of the understanding that there are many people here on WR who were 'banned' when 'harming the project' was not their intent ...

Indeed ...

It would seem many are banned for actually attempting to defend the Wikipedia from insidious elements that even the good end of the boy scout admins and arbitrators are just too engrossed or rudimentary to see.

[everyking]

It seems to me the purpose of bans is to prevent people to harming the encyclopedia.

How naive.

A typical purpose of bans is to protect the banning party's biased views. Once you understand that, you can learn how to read Wikipedia.

There's supposed to be an implied theory/practice distinction in the quoted sentence.

[thekohser]

After Gregory Kohs kindly proxied for a banned user by adding the article on Osmund Lewry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmund_Lewry...

Well, it looks like another Wikipedia worker bee has chewed up the published content of another person, then regurgitated it and spit it back out as glorious, "original", freely-licensed content.

Compare, and watch how the credit to the Wikipedia Review source magically disappears. That's how the Hive works, folks!

This post has been edited by thekohser: Mon 28th September 2009, 3:03pm

[Appleby]

After Gregory Kohs kindly proxied for a banned user

If an edit is good, is its source all that important? If it's bad it should be expunged; maybe some kind person will start an AfD.

[Peter Damian]

It's rather clumsy. The original said that simply Lewry studied under Lejewski and Prior at Manchester. The revised version presents the same facts in a horrid circumlocutory style - "Lewry's educational background included studies at the [[University of Manchester]], where he focused on mathematical logic ... [and] was instructed by Lejewski and Prior" which says the same thing in twice as many words.

If I used a sock and revised it, the PLEASE DO NOT RESTORE would apply. If I said I was a sock and gave my real identity, presumably that would be OK? But then I would be blocked.

[edit] Indeed, someone who claims to be me has done so (and cleaned up the mess that Ottava made of the second section). Is this person Peter Damian? If so the work must be removed as made by a banned user. If not, it must be removed because it violates copyright. Either way, it must be removed.

The idiotic Triplestop has now reported the edits as vandalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=316758920

This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Mon 28th September 2009, 9:19pm

[Casliber]

I always found that odd that Americans have 'spit' as the simple past tense of 'spit', rather than the more vivid 'spat'.....

[Peter Damian]

Well they have resolved the difficulty as follows. A vandal fighter has reverted the edits here

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=316758846

to 'enforce the policy on banning'. Thus the administration believes the editor's claim to be Peter Damian. However on the talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=316758846 a further request has been for 'proof of identity'. Thus the administration clearly does not believe the editor's claim. Tricky.

[edit] OK http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?title=Direc...771&oldid=91729 this now proves the author's identity. Do they then revert the edits that the Californian vandal-fighter and Pokemon fan has removed?

This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Tue 29th September 2009, 7:06am

[thekohser]

I'm surprised nobody has written yet about Brandywine Springs....

I'd like to write the article for a wiki, but I think this one's going to Wikipedia Review, not Wikipedia.

Just took a look at the traffic logs, and it looks like Wikipedia Review is handily beating Wikipedia on this one, at least for some specific (and actual) searches like this one.

[The Joy]

Nothing on e-Wolf and their planned electric supercar.

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2009-10...gen-ev-supercar

[thekohser]

No Wikipedia article about "Human economy", despite it being a fairly common term.

[Brutus]

I haven't yet seen an article about this

Vacuum cleaner collectors club.

For a start here's some reliable sources.
St Louis Beacon - Vacuum Cleaners Club
CBS News - Vacuum Cleaner Club
ABC - Australia - Vacuum cleaner club
Boy's Life - Boy Scouts of America Magazine, 1999, Pg 12 - Vacuum Cleaner Club - based on circulation, it has to be a notable publication
Modern Marvels TV Documentry - saw it there, forgot the episode.

This post has been edited by Brutus: Sun 8th November 2009, 10:52am

[Cla68]

There are still relatively minor but significant, contemporary historical events which have yet to receive articles in Wikipedia. I just started one yesterday. There are a series of connected events related to race relations in the US Navy which as of yet don't have articles, but which I will be starting over the next few weeks or so, including the USS Constellation insurrection and the resulting Hicks congressional hearings. I'm not sure why there hasn't been articles on these events until now.

[thekohser]

There are still relatively minor but significant, contemporary historical events which have yet to receive articles in Wikipedia. I just started one yesterday. There are a series of connected events related to race relations in the US Navy which as of yet don't have articles, but which I will be starting over the next few weeks or so, including the USS Constellation insurrection and the resulting Hicks congressional hearings. I'm not sure why there hasn't been articles on these events until now.

For those who tire of their work being sabotaged by drama, articles such as these could also be published on Wikipedia Review, with an advertisement providing lifetime residual income to the author.

Just a thought.

[wikieyeay]

There are lots of tourist attractions that attract large numbers of visitors, in the UK, that don't have Wikipedia pages.

Pretty much all of the children's farms, which are busy and successful attractions, are missing, such as Godstone Farm, centre of the E Coli outbreak. Actually this seems to be the way around the world. Outside of the major theme parks, Wikipedia has very weak information on synthetic tourist attractions generally.

[CharlotteWebb]

Somebody on TV just used the term "futurepop" and I wondered what the hell kind of music that would be.

Search engine results quickly revealed to me that fifteen (15) language-editions of Wikipedia have an article about this genre/sub-genre (see e.g. [[de:Futurepop]]), however English is not one of them.

In fact [[Futurepop]] is protected from existing on enwiki.

[A Horse With No Name]

There are still relatively minor but significant, contemporary historical events which have yet to receive articles in Wikipedia. I just started one yesterday. There are a series of connected events related to race relations in the US Navy which as of yet don't have articles, but which I will be starting over the next few weeks or so, including the USS Constellation insurrection and the resulting Hicks congressional hearings. I'm not sure why there hasn't been articles on these events until now.

Because:

(1) There are very few people with research and writing skills on Wikipedia who have the ability to create an article of significant value on a specialized subject that encompasses issues of military history and justice and race relations.

(2) Anyone who possesses research and writing skills to convey the complexity of the riot and the subsequent investigation into what took place would most likely write an article for a historical journal or a book on the topic -- and get a byline and a check for their efforts.

(3) Serious historical scholarship is not a collaborative effort. As an adult, do you really want to get into an edit war with some anonymous IP contributor and then have seek out a 15-year-old admin to solve the dispute?

[thekohser]

In fact [[Futurepop]] is protected from existing on enwiki.

Wow, that's a damn shame.

[thekohser]

Couple more articles absent from Wikipedia come to mind today in the kitchen:

• Apple corer
• Ice cream scoop

Get to work, drones!

[A Horse With No Name]

[*]Apple corer

Can it core a apple?
Yes, it can core a apple!

Probably one of the funniest moments in the history of US television:

[BelovedFox]

In fact [[Futurepop]] is protected from existing on enwiki.

Wow, that's a damn shame.

Too bad the wikipediareview article doesn't appear in the first results for either "futurepop" or "futurepop wiki" (beaten by the Simple English Wikipedia )

This post has been edited by BelovedFox: Wed 24th February 2010, 3:51pm