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After more dis­cus­sion than con­tent, Wiki­pe­dia has sadly removed the Frank Arrigo entry cre­ated by delic8genius, and edited (badly) by my good self.

Object­ive les­sons learnt:

• social media is not a free-for-all
• online com­munit­ies have rules
• wiki­pe­dia does openly pub­lish their rules. These rules and style guide are long. 
• new­bies are left to freely cre­ate their own entries
• strong edit­or­ial pro­cess quickly clamps down on new entries, espe­cially from newbies
• wikipedia’s edit­ors have strong rules, all pub­lished, and are followed
• bio­graph­ies detail­ing liv­ing people are very care­fully vetted
• if you are a blog­ger and work for a large com­pany, you prob­ably “haven’t done any­thing of note for the world”
• people’s defin­i­tion of any­thing of note differs.

I can now clearly see where a couple of strategies under­taken by fans–of–frank may have come unstuck — albeit with good intent.

It would be inter­est­ing to watch wiki­pe­dia to see if these rules are evenly applied.