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Ask HN: Are you the originator of any Wikipedia articles? Which and why?

10 points by cainxinth 4y ago

cainxinth 4y ago
I started "List of films set in the future" in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_the_future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_the_futur... I created it because I love futuristic movies. It got taken down several times before I finally won my appeal to keep it up. One argument was that it wasn't worthy of being in Wikipedia, despite the fact that even back then there were countless other lists of films covering tiny niches. There was also significant debate about whether the Star Wars films could be added, and ultimately the decision was made that they couldn't because they are set "A long time ago..." But, it's been very fun watching it grow over the years.
qualudeheart 4y ago
I have contributed to several.
mindcrime 4y ago
I've started a small number of Wikipedia articles over the years. Off the top of my head I know of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid_security_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid_security_in_th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_nervous_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_nervous_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Information_Awareness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Information_Awarene... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_business_process_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_business_process_manage... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloggie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloggie and a bunch of stuff related to Web Services. Why? Hell if I know. I mean, there's no one, single, comprehensive answer to that. In each case there was just something I felt like needed to be on WP and it wasn't yet, so I started it. Note that in at least one case I was wrong and there was already a closely related page that I overlooked somehow and I wound up creating something that now really need to be merged with another page. But I have neither the free cycles nor the interest to do it myself right now. Here's hoping somebody else will take it up at some point.
timonoko 4y ago
Yes. One. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_sock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_sock This was immediately candidate for deletion. All other contributions on this field were deleted by persons, who know nothing about these issues. My original "folding kayak" was also immediately deleted, and it was far more extensive than the current one. It contained story of successful raid by Finnish Kayak Army deep into Russia, but the creepy leftist pro-Russian mods did not like it. Wikipedia is dead and has to be banned.

10 points by cainxinth 4y ago

I started "List of films set in the future" in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_the_future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_the_futur... I created it because I love futuristic movies. It got taken down several times before I finally won my appeal to keep it up. One argument was that it wasn't worthy of being in Wikipedia, despite the fact that even back then there were countless other lists of films covering tiny niches. There was also significant debate about whether the Star Wars films could be added, and ultimately the decision was made that they couldn't because they are set "A long time ago..." But, it's been very fun watching it grow over the years.

qualudeheart 4y ago

I have contributed to several.

mindcrime 4y ago

I've started a small number of Wikipedia articles over the years. Off the top of my head I know of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid_security_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid_security_in_th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_nervous_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_nervous_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Information_Awareness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Information_Awarene... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_business_process_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_business_process_manage... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloggie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloggie and a bunch of stuff related to Web Services. Why? Hell if I know. I mean, there's no one, single, comprehensive answer to that. In each case there was just something I felt like needed to be on WP and it wasn't yet, so I started it. Note that in at least one case I was wrong and there was already a closely related page that I overlooked somehow and I wound up creating something that now really need to be merged with another page. But I have neither the free cycles nor the interest to do it myself right now. Here's hoping somebody else will take it up at some point.

timonoko 4y ago

Yes. One. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_sock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_sock This was immediately candidate for deletion. All other contributions on this field were deleted by persons, who know nothing about these issues. My original "folding kayak" was also immediately deleted, and it was far more extensive than the current one. It contained story of successful raid by Finnish Kayak Army deep into Russia, but the creepy leftist pro-Russian mods did not like it. Wikipedia is dead and has to be banned.