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] Date Posted: 17:37:06 12/14/04 Tue In reply to: A 's message, "Deleting the FCS article" on 16:12:29 12/10/04 Fri And before it had even been fully discussed on their deletion page. So much for the ideals of a community driven encyclopędia. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: This is disgraceful | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:41:37 12/15/04 Wed I think it's appalling that our article has been deleted. Why should it be taken out just because a few people disgaree with it? This is political correctness. Our article was very professional and informative. Those who disagree need not look at it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:05:43 12/15/04 Wed God forbid that anyone should portray the world in terms that one or two individuals should disagree with. It's interesting that one of the commentators on the deletion page, a New Zealander, descibed us as nutcases, despite voting to keep our page. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: I gathered that their argument was not "offensiveness" but "irrelevance" | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:01:04 12/15/04 Wed The idea is that they are running an encyclopedia, not a free source of publicity for small groups such as ours. If they have such a policy on so-called "vanity" articles and are sticking to it, so be it. You get what you pay for. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Our web sites are good enough for information anyway | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:40:45 12/15/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: exactly: I don't think anyone needs an article on Wikipedia to know what we think | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:43:00 12/15/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Deleting our article | |
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Author: Ben.M(UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:34:59 12/15/04 Wed I'm finding it hard to be as reasonable as you guys. I'd be f-ing and cursing here if I didn't want others to read it. I'm pretty angry that our article has been deleted basically because someone has decided they disagree with our views. I guess they must be reading this forum, the list below has some other offensive articles that must be deleted at once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_the_Travellers_Aid_Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozenal_Society_of_Great_Britain [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: These articles clearly show that ours was deleted only because somebody complained about it - probably Dumb Irelander again | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:50:36 12/15/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Actually several people didn't think much of your article see votes page nt | |
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Author: anon [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:17:15 12/17/04 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Good lord | |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:17:35 12/15/04 Wed Not long ago I was thinking about a practical alternative to decimalisation, and decided that we need to make the figure 10 represent the twelvth integer and have two extra numbers. Having looked at the website of people who have made this capaign their raison d'etre, I have now decided that I need medical help and am therefore off to Vienna for electric shock treatment. I'll start to contribute again when I have a letter proving that I am sane, provided that a slender majority of the panel can be pursuaded to decide in my favour. TTFN. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:22:33 12/15/04 Wed Ben, I agree with you. But, short of reinvesting time in recreating our article, there is little we can do. I agree, it was probably deleted because people found it either diagreeable or 'unworkable'. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Reality bites | |
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Author: anon [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:53:57 12/17/04 Fri I hate to say it guys, but if you're going to take your message to the wider world, you're going to encounter people who strongly disagree with you. Not to mention the fact that the FC idea has to contend against big forces such as the USA, EU etc, and is only a handful of people. The article was just a promotion spiel for the FCS, not a real encyclopedia entry, and that's why it got deleted. The case against never got a look in, and that's why it was deleted. One of the other guys claims that you weren't "significant" enough. How big must you be? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Of course... | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:43:51 12/17/04 Fri Well of course we will meet people who disagree with us, I just thought that the community of Wikipedia would have treated the idea with more respect and not taken their views of us into consideration when debating on whether the article should be removed. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |