- Full reviews may be found in this page history. For a summary, see Wikipedia:Deletion review/Recently concluded (2006 September)
25 September 2006
Harris Mercer here again. Xoloz: the fact that you didn't like the speech I gave - or that it sounded like something from a "drug-filled haze" to you - doesn't make my existence a hoax. Of course, I can't seem to find the record of the speech that was posted on Wikipedia anywhere, but the conclusion went like this: "What stretches before us now is one of the elementary shots of American cinema: an open stretch of road, a blur on the horizon seen through the windshield. Is this a bright new future? Is it yet another false dawn for our generation? Or is it just a lousy hangover? Today, we're too surly to care, and that makes us limited, but it makes us free." I don't think it's THAT good either. But I gave it, and people liked it. That does not make me notable enough for an encyclopedia entry; far from it. But if the system here is constitutionally incapable of removing an unnecessary article (in what should be a database with information on kings and presidents and not prominent liberal youth leaders in contemporary America, which is what I am) without dissecting the oratorical style of it's subject, I find it unsurprising that according to a recent New Yorker article 87% of all Wikipedia activity is now maintenance and policy discussioin, with little energy left to actually expanding knowledge.
- Full reviews may be found in this page history. For a summary, see Wikipedia:Deletion review/Recently concluded (2006 September)
25 September 2006
Harris Mercer here again. Xoloz: the fact that you didn't like the speech I gave - or that it sounded like something from a "drug-filled haze" to you - doesn't make my existence a hoax. Of course, I can't seem to find the record of the speech that was posted on Wikipedia anywhere, but the conclusion went like this: "What stretches before us now is one of the elementary shots of American cinema: an open stretch of road, a blur on the horizon seen through the windshield. Is this a bright new future? Is it yet another false dawn for our generation? Or is it just a lousy hangover? Today, we're too surly to care, and that makes us limited, but it makes us free." I don't think it's THAT good either. But I gave it, and people liked it. That does not make me notable enough for an encyclopedia entry; far from it. But if the system here is constitutionally incapable of removing an unnecessary article (in what should be a database with information on kings and presidents and not prominent liberal youth leaders in contemporary America, which is what I am) without dissecting the oratorical style of it's subject, I find it unsurprising that according to a recent New Yorker article 87% of all Wikipedia activity is now maintenance and policy discussioin, with little energy left to actually expanding knowledge.