Wikipedia

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
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Tango.info
  • article is kept
• 2006-02-17 w:de:Benutzer:Frank Schulenburg (DE) deletes without discussion a list of public domain tangos.
  • http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial%3ALogbuch&type=delete&user=&page=Liste+gemafreier+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.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Eisenkappl
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=&page=Bad+Eisenkappel
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bad_Eisenkappel&offset=20060909005539&action=history
• 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
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tango.info_(2nd_nomination)
  • article is deleted
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Tango.info
• 2006-07-12 w:User:Ragib wants to delete list of tango singers
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_tango_singers&diff=63332013&oldid=58750835
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_tango_singers
    • the page is kept
• 2007-08-10 deletes 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
• 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")
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Todotango.com
• 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

General Corruption

• http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wikipedia-Gruender-unter-Beschuss--/meldung/105006