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==Overview== | |||
[[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: | |||
"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== | ==Tango== | ||
Some people at Wikipedia tried and | 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 | *2005-08-04 [[w:User:Humblefool]] wants to delete article about one of the biggest tango websites | ||
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**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_tango_singers | **http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_tango_singers | ||
***the page is kept | ***the page is kept | ||
*2007-08-10 | *2007-08-10 [[Oscar Serpa]] from Lujano de Cuyo article deleted. culprit [[w:User:TexasAndroid]] (US) | ||
**http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luj%C3%A1n_de_Cuyo&diff=next&oldid=148271607 | **http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luj%C3%A1n_de_Cuyo&diff=next&oldid=148271607 | ||
*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") | *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") | ||
Latest revision as of 2015-01-24T22:09:52
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 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