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Don't forget about Wikipedia...

What Wikipedia is not:

Useful.

A place where I would feel welcome.

And if I forget, I have to read this text I wrote the other day to a moderator:

 

Well, I guess you really are not trying to be mean, however you have confirmed that the impression I was having lately about Wikipedia is true. You may think you were helping me; however it was me trying to help Wikipedia. I really don’t care if there is an article about that company written here, chance (and curiosity) got me into looking for information about that company, and when I found there was no article about it on Wikipedia, I thought it was foolish that two software products developed by this company where notable enough to have their own articles, but the developer itself was not (even though it is also referenced in nine more articles), and I wanted to help at least writing a brief description of it. Right now both articles: Gunbound and Rakion have a red link and no article that link them together. People reading those articles will have to leave Wikipedia to find more information about what other products were made by the same maker. It is obvious that Wikipedia is changed; it is no longer the old Wikipedia from 2005 that encouraged contribution for filling the gaps of all the red links. Now most moderators in their noble effort to fight against spam, self-promotion and inaccurate information have lost vision and common sense and are making their own twisted interpretation of what is notable or what is a reliable source. I didn’t contact the other moderator because I thought he may have his reasons to distrust Gamespot and Neoseeker as sources (even though they are online publications who specialize on the topic), so I wasted almost an hour of my time before resubmitting looking for a more traditional source: a newspaper. However let’s face it, an U.S. newspaper won’t cover an article about a South Korean game developer that has no branches operating in the U.S. unless there is a suicide or a mass murder involved in the story. My best possibility to find a better reliable source was to find a South Korean newspaper, and I had to rely on online translators to check that the facts of the only sentence I wrote were truth (date of foundation, founder and some products developed by them). Yet it seems that wasn’t good enough either. So I realized it’s hopeless and the English Wikipedia is already beyond salvation, hopefully a new alternative will come and will last some more years until it gets spoiled too. However I don’t blame you for your actions, as you are just another automaton that belong to the same twisted minded collective that rule over Wikipedia, and you just act accordingly for fear of your peers that will ban you if you show any sign of individual thinking. But since you are in the helpful mood maybe I should point you to this list [[List_of_south_korean_companies]] several of the companies listed there also lack good sources, just be careful when deleting them you may delete the whole Country by mistake. For now I will just check more frequently the Spanish Wikipedia which looks less spoiled. Probably Softnyx will get its own article the day it gets mentioned on a South Park episode, an XKCD comic or whatever you guys are into these days…

 

Published Saturday, August 15, 2009 7:31 AM by paladinsama

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paladinsama said:

On July 29th, 2011 a new article for Softnyx was written. It has more information but less sources than the one I wrote. It has lived for 7 days without being deleted.

Has Wikipedia changed?

Today I read this article about Wikipedia losing its contributors.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/08/04/wikipedia_says_its_losing_contributors/

Propably the old obtuse moderators left?

August 5, 2011 7:51 AM
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