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Wikipedia has a cancer that deletes information. For example there was an article on an old BBS game and the only references were to Boardwatch Magazine, web s
by orionblastar 14y ago
Wikipedia has a cancer that deletes information.
For example there was an article on an old BBS game and the only references were to Boardwatch Magazine, web sites no longer in operation, and a user manual made by an independent third party. It was put up for deletion and 15 people voted keep and 4 voted delete and it was deleted. Someone cannot do math at Wikipedia.
I found this happened to other articles. I was quoting Eric S. Raymond on "The Art of Unix Programming" about the history of the GUI and how IBM licensed the Amiga GUI from Commodore http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch03s02.html#os_2 http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch03s02.html#os... http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2Warp.html http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2Warp.html for the Workbench GUI that IBM based the Workplace Shell on. But it was deleted in the OS/2 and Amiga article because Mr. Raymond was 'non-notable' and the editor who reverted my changed claimed he did not have a copy of his book to verify it, so it wasn't a valid source.