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Re: E-petion Save Natami from wiki deletion
« 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 #1 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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