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Comment by moomin

4 years ago

A little story some may find amusing and possibly pertinent: many years back one of the Wikipedia editors said something really silly. Silly enough it got reported on. So… I went to see if they had a Wikipedia page. And, of course they did. Despite the fact that they were, objectively, not notable.

So, I did the decent thing and, in a “Haha, only serious” fashion updated the article to include easily the most notable thing they had ever done. Even provided multiple citations and everything.

I mean, everyone here knows what happened next. I didn’t expend any more energy on it.

(For the record, when I say silly I mean it, it was mildly embarrassing, offended no-one and wasn’t problematic in any way.)

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manholio  4 years ago

This story is elliptical to the point of unintelligibility. Nobody knows what happened next. We can guess a page was deleted from the context of this thread, but we have no idea why.

  • repsilat  4 years ago

    > We can guess a page was deleted

    My interpretation was "the edits were quickly reverted and the editor's page remained flattering and devoid of evidence of notability."

    • moomin  4 years ago

      Exactly right. If there was a point I had (and let’s be honest, I was being an arsehole or is have linked the page) it was the policies are ignored when it’s personally inconvenient.

      That’s why you see very little on Wikipedia about how they spend the donations…

  • noobermin  4 years ago

    This is being downvoted, but I too want to know more explicitly what happened. Even link said page because I am now curious.