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lol :) In addition, they seemed to have decided that any reason given by a recently-created account could be ignored, without caring if it's valid. Oh and the
by xlnt 18y ago
lol :)
In addition, they seemed to have decided that any reason given by a recently-created account could be ignored, without caring if it's valid.
Oh and the real reason it was deleted is that it's a right-wing humor blog and some of the wikipedia people were offended by it's content.
- tptacek 18y agoWhat was the blog?
- xlnt 18y agoimao.us it still exists, but now it's a group blog and not as good. if you want to try reading a post, this is a good one: http://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm http://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm
- tptacek 18y agoI'm super liberal, I just wanted to see the AfD for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Imao_blog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion... This got deleted because, if you read the "keep" votes, the only arguments were that (a) it had been nominated for several awards, and (b) that it got lots of traffic. Neither are strong arguments. It definitely didn't help that the blog was conservative and wikilawyers tend either towards shrieky Green Party turboliberalism or, worse, Paulbotism.
- xlnt 18y agoEdit: Oh hell, they deleted some of the keep arguments. I think they deleted keep arguments by people with recently created accounts, or which were not formatted properly. I am absolutely certain of this. For example, my keep argument isn't there. I don't remember what it said, but I do remember that I posted one. Also there used to be significant vertical scrolling.
- tptacek 18y agoSee [[Wikipedia:Other stuff exists]]. They think of everything! =)
- tptacek 18y agoIt would be exceedingly weird for them to delete comments from AfD discussions, but if they did, they'd still be in the edit history.
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- xlnt 18y agoOh, you found the wrong AfD page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/IMAO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/IM...
- rory096 18y agoNot a single comment was removed from that AfD. Not only would that be completely against policy and instantly reverted, but I just checked every edit to it. (Yes, I need a life.) The article was deleted because the subject wasn't considered notable, not because there's some conspiracy against conservative blogs.
- xlnt 18y agoEDIT: he linked to the wrong AfD page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/IMAO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/IM...
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