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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2011, 02:05:44 AM »
keep
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2011, 02:10:50 AM »
Keep or I kill you and the horse you rode in on!
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2011, 02:56:46 AM »
TIP to DigiFlip... :)

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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2011, 03:01:26 AM »
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2011, 03:20:16 AM »
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2011, 03:55:09 AM »
The notability policy is a complete joke, anyway. Separate pages for every episode of The Simpsons are notable, but not a single series page for Arfenhouse, the X1000 is notable because it has coverage from "reliable sources" (i.e. online tech journals whose main function is to parrot press releases) but Natami doesn't, blah blah, the list goes on...
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2011, 03:58:25 AM »
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The notability policy is a complete joke, anyway. Separate pages for every episode of The Simpsons are notable, but not a single series page for Arfenhouse, the X1000 is notable because it has coverage from "reliable sources" (i.e. online tech journals whose main function is to parrot press releases) but Natami doesn't, blah blah, the list goes on...


Must be getting tired (well it is almost 4:am here) but I haven't scooby doo what you just said there... :confused:
 

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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2011, 04:40:48 AM »
What he is saying is that Wikipedia can, and often does, delete real articles about real Amiga products that really exist and are used by real people in the real world because "The Amiga is not notable".

Yet articles about every random fictional TV show starring fictional characters performing fictional deeds in fictional locations, are not allowed to be deleted because they are "notable for being mentioned in the mainstream media".

Any "encyclopedia" that deletes factual information but keeps fictional information is a joke.
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2011, 04:59:38 AM »
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Any "encyclopedia" that deletes factual information but keeps fictional information is a joke.


Well put. That's the trouble with everyone having an equal voice, the idiots can get to shout out the experts. If the moderators did as they should it would work out ok most of the time, sadly, some of them are idiots too so it doesn't. Oh well, wiki article or not, it's not going to effect my purchasing, the Natami is a must have, pure and simple.
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2011, 05:23:39 AM »
Exactly nobody is not going to buy this because of a wikipedia article.  Given wikipedia's guidelines, it should probably be deleted.  That's not a judgement on NatAmi but rather a practical response based on Wikipedia's stated goals and objectives.
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2011, 05:31:19 AM »
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Exactly nobody is not going to buy this because of a wikipedia article.
This is very true. It's not at all likely to hurt the Natami project, it's just annoying.
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Given wikipedia's guidelines, it should probably be deleted.  That's not a judgement on NatAmi but rather a practical response based on Wikipedia's stated goals and objectives.
However, I'll have to disagree with this. Wikipedia's guidelines are poorly-defined and enforced entirely at the whim of the moderators, very often spurred by someone's personal biases. (That's not to say that this was a judgement on Natami, just that that sort of thing is hardly uncommon.)
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2011, 05:51:02 AM »
Wickedpedia has no rules but mob rule.
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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2011, 06:39:23 AM »
Delete: Not notable, it's one of millions of electronics projects that hasn't even been completed. Wikipedia is not a place for Amiga (or any other kind of) evangelism. Koft (talk) 21:15, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 

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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #27 on: June 12, 2011, 07:34:29 AM »
 

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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #28 on: June 12, 2011, 10:08:41 AM »
I voted yes to keep, out of principal more than anything else.
I don't think it really matters.
Wiki isn't the font of all knowledge despite what some people would have you believe.

Assuming the Natami gets released, the word will soon get round the tech sites and such soon  enough.
 

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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« Reply #29 from previous page: June 12, 2011, 10:23:43 AM »
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