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Wikipedia Articles for deletion/Encyclopedia Dramatica
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The Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Encyclopedia Dramatica is a hoary old TOW classic. It is an annual ritual for butthurt Wikipedos to cry a river over the fact that ED routinely exposes the fact that TOW employs pedophiles (Erik Möller) and convicted felons (Carolyn Doran) to run Jimbo's empire of information control. The amount of bawing is the leading cause of Global Warming due to the massive amount of methane gas that is emitted during the AfD flame waring that inevitably ensues.
Modus Operandi
Logic
Encyclopedia Dramatica is a popular website that has existed on the Internets for over 4 years and has been referenced multiple times in a variety of media. It also has a higher Alexa ranking than similar sites that Wikipedia covers, like (Wikia owned) Uncyclopedia.
The Draft
A Wikipedian starts a subpage stub on Encyclopedia Dramatica (or Encyclopædia Dramatica) and the usual suspects dogpile on the poor user (or admin) and attempt to get the subpage deleted.
The Article
However, on occasion, a hero will arise and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by moving the article into 'circulation' as a bona fide article while the faggotry rages over the subpage.
The Obligatory Automatic AfD
Page Locked Down
Pending any actual decision on the fate of the article, the page gets locked from everyone, (including 'trusted users') by a TOW admin so noone can alter it...for example raidfags from Uncyclopedia.
The 'Debate'
This is where the real lulz start.
—Random832 (contribs) 01:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
Delete - judging by the sources currently available, while it's a long list it's a very shallow one. I don't feel the current selection of sources is enough to establish notability, and the large focus ED has on Wikipedia makes it seem too much like naval-gazing on our part when wikipedia doesn't even care what EDiots think. --InkSplotch (talk) 20:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- Large focus? According to their own category page, the two specific-to-Wiki categories contain 402 pages. The 4chan category contains 518. DeviantART has 419. Furries has 508. Memes 563. There are 2192 pages in the People category, some of which may be about Wikipedia editors, but definitely not all of them. So your argument of how ED's "large focus" on Wikipedia equating to "navel-gazing" is ignorant and utterly wrong. Howa0082 (talk) 21:08, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- That category could use some expansion. Celarnor Talk to me 21:33, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- So this is a hobbyist website concerning the making of stick bundles? I confess that through my keep arguments, I've never been to the site...but I do like stick bundles...perhaps after work I shall take a gander. --SmashvilleBONK! 21:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- Question: Is this the longest AfD evar? Also, I think it (and the history of ED's AFDs) is notable enough for its own article.
--Piepie (talk) 21:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
In this morality play, Running, who had taken the bare bones of Shii's (a TOW admin) subpage draft of an article and created an ED page, returns it into the realm of other things that don't exist at TOW so users can at least work on upgrading the {{stub}}.
Comment - to inform everyone, I write about it also here - I made another copy of the article to my userspace, so WP editors can edit the article (and making it better) instead of just talking about it. (just look how long this discussion is) - User:Running/Encyclopedia Dramatica --Have a nice day. Running 23:24, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- Question: Am I going to get b& if I try and work on it? Shii is an admin here afaik and his subpage on ED was baleeted. --Piepie (talk) 23:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- It was, after one of last AfD, but you are certainly not going to be banned. In worst case, the page will be deleted. --Have a nice day. Running 23:59, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- Such is the atmosphere of fear and loathing that surrounds any reference to ED around here that people do develop paranoia, sometimes to great extremes, about doing anything even vaguely related to it in fear of getting retaliated against somehow. *Dan T.* (talk) 00:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- It was, after one of last AfD, but you are certainly not going to be banned. In worst case, the page will be deleted. --Have a nice day. Running 23:59, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
AfD discussions regarding ED tend to get emotionally charged and tempers will flare. They will range from the ridiculous "NO U!"s of prissy church ladies...
—The Voice Of Your Heart (talk) 01:33, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
—Running 01:41, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
—Howa0082 (talk) 01:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
...to the LOL WUT...
—Sceptre (talk) 11:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
...to the sublime of logical thought.
— Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 08:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC) |
—ALKIVAR™ ☢ 18:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
—InvaderJim42 23:33, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
—Node (talk) 16:30, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
And finally...
—HALtalk 22:20, 17 May 2008 (UTC) |
The Conclusion
Inevitably, the article gets baleeted and the status quo is preserved: in the myopic world of Jimbo, certain things just don't exist. And even if those things happen to meet TOW's rigid, arcane standards of 'notability', having been sauced multiple times by the good ole fashioned newspaper, they still may not qualify as being part of the all human knowledge TOW purports to catalogue.
The Irony
—--91.143.81.107 (talk) 03:41, 17 May 2008 (UTC) |
A major national newspaper will pick up on this article and do a David vs Goliath story on ED vs TOW. That article will then become the main source of "notability" that TOW requires (occasionally). And even if this doesn't happen, ED wins because the ED vs TOW battle exposes how fundamentally flawed TOW's arcane and inane policies are and what a bunch of cry baby hypocrites Wikipedians are.
The Conclusion: Part II
As of May 21, 2008, ED has found a home back on TOW. In a surprising turn of logic, a few wikipedo admins decided it was time for ED to be recognized as notable. Again. Of course, by doing this it only makes ED even moar notable, and further exemplifies the extreme mental retardation so common amongst the previous TOW admins who denied it coverage.
Take note that the Encyclopedia Article is one of the most sauce-heavy stubs on TOW.(Citation needed)
See Also
External Links
- The article in question. OMGWTFBBQ It's alive.
- December 2004
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