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Maybe it just wasn't notable? I've never even heard of PBWiki.
by bbb 18y ago
Maybe it just wasn't notable? I've never even heard of PBWiki.
- dweekly 18y agoIt's fair that you might not have heard of PBwiki, but a Wikipedia admin should have at least given a cursory glance at what's out there, including in the last 30 days alone mentions in Newsweek, Forbes, the New York Times, LinuxInsider, WebWorkerDaily, Mashable, and Wired News. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=pbwiki&btnG=Search+News http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=pbwiki...
- bbb 18y agoMaybe. But Wikipedia is not the "list of all businesses in the world." It's not even the "list of all businesses that got mentioned by $X" where $X in Newsweek, Forbes,... What has the company done that is special? Did it innovate in some special way? Was it involved in some notable affair? Is it the market leader in some domain? If it's just another wiki farm that happens to have a PR department worth its money then it doesn't necessarily have to be listed in Wikipedia. Note that I'm not saying that PBWiki shouldn't be listed (I don't know them, after all), but that I'm saying that hits on Google News don't imply that it _must_ be listed. Deletions occur all the time. If you think an article got unfairly deleted, resurrect it and put in better citations. On top of that, PBWiki is not even a competitor to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the wiki. MediaWiki is the software powering Wikipedia. PBwiki's software may compete with MediaWiki. PBwiki's hosting service competes with neither MediaWiki nor Wikipedia --- neither "product" is in the hosting business.