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Frank Arrigo, Wikipedia
By Nick Hodge | May 28, 2007
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.
Topics: technology, wikipedia | 3 Comments »
May 28th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
[…] Nick Hodge has noticed that the article has been removed and has aptly pronounced the article […]
May 28th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
[…] Update: Apparently this entry has been deleted. […]
May 28th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
My observation is that generally they are — even Frank Coletta (the journalist and occasional newsreader) got deleted, although Sally Sara has all but survived.