User talk:Sim

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[edit] To Whomever else that thinks that they are me, you aren't :p

Sorry to whomever else wanted this name :), but I already have it. I'm getting a few emails telling me that someone is requesting a new password for this account. You haven't lost it; it's mine. I've had this account for almost a decade now, so I'm pretty sure of that fact. Kindly please stop requesting a new password for it, as I seem to have to re-login each time. Thank you.

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[edit] Recent mass purge

Recently, the Powers That Be of Wikipedia have decided to purge several unnotable webcomic articles from Wikipedia's database. While I agree on this point of view in principle (after all, just because some Bob Smith makes a webcomic doesnt mean there should be a Wikipedia page about it), it seems the editor in question does not know a fair lot concerning what makes a webcomic notable.

While Penny Arcade and User Friendly were left up, for example, several other award-winning webcomics were taken down and senselessly deleted, including those that receive a fair amount of traffic, I might add.

Even if one does not know which webcomics are notable, one could numerically experiment by seeing how many other pages link to a given article, the kinds of articles that appear in its 'related links' section (such as awards it has won), and how many people search for an article over a given period of time.

I, among others, might suggest that someone or some people have been overbroad in the deletion of webcomics, as similar low-audience activities have not been deleted, which seems to myself to show a definate bias.

I have "been bold" and taken the action of recreating a few of the webcomics that seem, to me, to be the most gevious examples, however, I am sure I missed some, and would like to ensure such actions are not taken in the future. Sim 18:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Recreating with identical text (I haven't looked) is a criteria for speedy deletion of the new article. Indeed, recreation of substantially the same article is enough for speedy deletion. See the speedy deletion criteria for recreations of articles deleted through a deletion discussion. To learn how to find out why an article was deleted, read Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?. GRBerry 20:26, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

It's not perfectly identical. I added data about the awards it has won and affects in the community. (It's also been edited by quite a few people in the last few hours) I'm galled that I couldn't do anything with other pages I'm less familiar with. They didn't drop just one article; they apparently dropped several dozen simultaniously. They also apparently dropped several peripheral articles related to webcomics; the web cartoonist's choice awards, networking programs, the whole shebang. (This is what really drove me up the wall. They didn't just delete individual articles; they deleting an entire 20-30 page interconnecting web of articles). The deletion archive even posits the administator itself had reservations about deleting the page, especially as every single other person other than the nominator and deletor(I assume, last person posting at least) thought it should be kept. And I realize it's not a democracy, but the administrator specifically mentioned that the comments were well thought out and held a great deal of weight, and the points brought up as resons for deletion are specifically refuted in Wikipedia talk:Notability (web)#Web Cartoonist's Choice award.

I don't agree in principle with the idea of a mass purge in Wikipedia, and more than any individual article or articles, I'm more concerned with the idea that someone out there thinks this kind of thing is a good concept.Sim 06:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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snoyes 03:53, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thank you ;) Sim 19:15, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

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