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[[w:Wikipedia]] is an encyclopedia with copyright restrictions, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. | [[w:Wikipedia]] is an encyclopedia with copyright restrictions, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. | ||
==Trustworthiness== | |||
On the homepage it is prominently written: | On the homepage it is prominently written: | ||
"Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." | "Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." |
Revision as of 2013-10-19T14:47:08
Overview
w:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with copyright restrictions, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Trustworthiness
On the homepage it is prominently written:
"Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."
Which might contradict http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy
"Blocking is the method by which administrators technically prevent users from editing Wikipedia."
Tango
Some people at Wikipedia tried and succeeded to delete tango content.
- 2005-08-04 w:User:Humblefool wants to delete article about one of the biggest tango websites
- 2006-02-17 w:de:Benutzer:Frank Schulenburg (DE) deletes without discussion a list of public domain tangos.
- 2006-06-30 w:User:Jimfbleak (GB "I'm a Brit, and my main interest is birds, although I'll dabble in almost anything I come across." [1]) deletes Eisenkappl which is the birth place of Paul Rössler a tango teacher. w:User:InShaneee (US " I should be working as either a website designer (practically) or a video game designer (my wildest dream)") does so with Bad Eisenkappel.
- 2006-07-08 w:User:Baumfabrik (IE "I'm 36 years old, male, Irish, interested in engineering, beer, green politics, food, sex, art, astronomy, philosophy, history, cinema and languages.") wants to delete Tango.info
- 2006-07-12 w:User:Ragib wants to delete list of tango singers
- 2007-08-10 deletes Oscar Serpa from Lujano de Cuyo article deleted. culprit w:User:TexasAndroid (US)
- 2008-03-08 Todotango.com deleted without any discussion. Clearly violation of WP policies. Culprit: w:User:Orangemike (US "I am Michael James Lowrey ... born 1953 ... Tennessee")
- 2011-02-13 22:33 w:User:Admrboltz (US) deleted page Reliquias (Deleted because "All expired PRODs". using TW)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Reliquias
- Page still linked to from
- List of tango music labels
- List of EMI labels
- Text found in Google with reference to http://translation.babylon.com/english/rel%C3%ADquias/: "Reliquias is an Argentine record label. It is owned by Distribuidora Belgrano Norte. It is mainly a label for tango music but also includes folklore. The label is"
- 2011-02-21 22:14 w:User:Explicit (US, born ca. 1991 [2]) deleted page Tango Paradiso
- (Expired PROD, concern was: No evidence of notability; ref-tag since 2008)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&page=Tango+Paradiso