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Say it: Justin.tv not on Wikipedia: Why the hell not?
Published on 27/03/07
by Zac Echola
One of the first things I do when I discover something interesting is look it up on Wikipedia. I don’t know why, because Wikipedia truly is home to the C-grade high school paper, but I just do.
I guess Wikipedia quells my existential paranoia by showing me that other people believe something exists.
But ever since launch day, the Justin.tv article has been constantly deleted from Wikipedia by rogue admin (though he is a rouge admin, too) Chris Griswold. Here’s his excuse in the comments, finally posted today after days of silence:
I am tired of having to delete this article. Please show that the subject is notable so that the article does not qualify for a speedy deletion. Please see WP:WEB for information on how to do this. Additionally, you will need to work on the article either on this page or in userspace before I will again remove protection. –Chris Griswold (☎☓) 13:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
After much complaint from people talking to him in his discussion page, he decided to unlock the article on the 25th, asking people to cite “reliable sources” in the entry, but then locked the page again today, hours before G4TV plans to have a piece on Attack of the Show.
So here it is folks. The site that gives Start Trek’s fictional Rules of Acquisition 1,450 words (not including references) credence, won’t give an interesting new business, with a groundbreaking mobile Webcam (at least compared to jennicam, which has an article here), a wiki page, because it’s not notable.
The privacy issues alone should warrant a Wikipedia article. But that’s not enough for Wikipedia and the lone, surly admin, Chris Griswold.
Let’s do a Google fight of “Justin.tv” vs. “Rules of Acquisition,” shall we?
Griswold doesn’t feel that something already covered by San Fransisco Chronicle, Wired, BusinessWire, the Associated Press, TechCrunch, CNET, blogged about by hundreds, and dugg by thousands more is in any way notable.
Honestly, I think Griswold has something against the guys at Justin.tv. He’s also marked the artlicle for the Web calendar, Kiko, for deletion. Kiko was created by many of the same group involved in Justin.tv.
This is the kind of wikiality Stephen Colbert dreams about at night.
The end. Or is it?
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Chris
03/07/07
At the time, I was editing many, many articles and also was performing administrative duties. I didn’t have time to search for references for the article, which read like many other articles advertising the launch of a new site. After the editors working on the article did not add any references despite repeat requests, it appeared to me and to other editors that perhaps the article was spam. We directed the editors to the proper places for more information, and we also offered assistance; at least I know I did because I always did. I have since stepped down due largely to the enormity of the task in front of an admin, which is proportionate to the amount of abuse one takes. Plus, I have things more important to me to work on right now. It’s probably best, though, not to look to sci-fi-related articles for an example to follow. Don’t even look at a Transformers article unless you want your eyes to bleed.