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1 posted on 06/18/2006 11:49:26 AM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

If you came to this page because a friend asked you to do so, or because you saw a message on an online forum pointing to this page, please note that this is not a vote. This is a discussion among Wikipedia editors and is aimed at reaching a consensus on whether the article is suitable for this encyclopedia. The outcome of AfD nominations are primarily determined by the quality of arguments for or against deletion; the process is immune to ballot-stuffing or sockpuppetry.


2 posted on 06/18/2006 11:53:24 AM PDT by Terpfen
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Wikipedia is left-wing? I'm shocked, knock me over with a feather.


3 posted on 06/18/2006 11:54:47 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

"Keep meets notability requirements per Kimchi.sg. Plus an organized right wing protest group is notable because of its rarity and the fact that it hasn't managed to achieve large scale support. It tells us a lot about the political culture in the USA at this time that there are "left wing" protest organization that can get hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets, but the "right wing" cannot. That alone makes this notable and encyclopedic, regardless of your political viewpoint. Gwernol 11:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)"

The "left wing" is underwritten by George Soros and ANSWER. We, other the other hand, pay our own way, and have families to support.


7 posted on 06/18/2006 12:02:25 PM PDT by Excellence (Since November 6, 1998)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite
Wikipedia is hopeless. The best bet is to just let it become what its editors want it to become...Liberalpedia. Then they can spout "NPOV" all they want but it will be so obviously hypocritical that no one will be fooled.

I love what they are doing with this article and the Kfir Alfia article. Common tactic...suggest that articles be merged...and then when they are all merged into one...put it up for deletion.

Wikipedia is HOPELESS. Its ridiculous to get involved with what is going on there.
10 posted on 06/18/2006 12:09:26 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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KEEP - Such charmingly Stalinist reasoning from those advocating purging PW from a public record: "It is yesterday's news"; "PW consists of very few people whatsoever... only one or two people per counterprotest"; "appears to be a group that has come and gone and nothing it did is worthy of more than a footnote in an encyclopedia"; et omnia generis alia...

"Yesterday's news"?
Were that the criterion by which entries in *reputable* public records were judged, the Encyclopedia Brittanica would be a single slender volume.
The purpose of any encyclopedia is to RECORD FACTS. Failing that, an encyclopedia would have no reason to exist at all.
One might as well advocate purging ALL of Wiki.
"Yesterday's news"... What a transparently idiotic brain-addled notion to put forth as "reason" in this debate.

Now, the following may be phrased in a tongue-in-cheek manner, but I am deadly serious.
Purging the politically inconvenient and annoying from the public record is a tried-and-true method of socialist propaganda.
The motto of those who seek to act in this manner is "he who controls the record of the past controls the future" - think about it, and consider the drive to delete PW from WIKI in that light.
An election cycle is just warming up, and it seems likely that it shall become quite heated.
Prior elections have demonstrated that Protest Warrior is an effective poke in the eye to the mass of folks parroting the usual global socialist talking points.
Seldom have "so few people whatsoever" so effectively rained on the kollectiv parades of so many Useful Idiots.
That they have ever been relevant earns them a permanent place in the record.
That they are likely to be so again merely reinforces their worth, and sheds cold light on the motives of some who would purge them from history.

King Prout - A People's Cube FReeper


11 posted on 06/18/2006 12:09:34 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Wikipedia is adminstered by students and the unemployed, fat chance ever getting a conservative bent to it.


21 posted on 06/18/2006 12:30:02 PM PDT by rattrap
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Wikipedia is a joke. It's like the news on television. It's not fact, it's just opinion. Amatuer at that. I say erase the whole hard drive the program is on.


23 posted on 06/18/2006 12:33:14 PM PDT by Jalapeno
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Oh this is rich the fetured article for today on Wikipedia : Today's featured article Che Guevara was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist revolutionary, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. This should be interesting on the left wing blogs and rant pages
28 posted on 06/18/2006 12:49:01 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS)
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After reading through this thread I decided to check-out Wikipedia, do some searches and see what I thought about their "take" on topics I am familiar with. I didn't even have to do a search. Today's featured article on their main page is:

Che Guevara was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist revolutionary, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas......

30 posted on 06/18/2006 12:52:54 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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First, this is disgusting but it does fit the profile of the left. They still believe they are in control of EVERYTHING.
As was stated so well as a "memory hole" will be filled by another entrepreneur that sees a need and fills it. Proving that our system works and liberals...don't.
34 posted on 06/18/2006 1:39:06 PM PDT by sierrahome (department of redundancy department)
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Wicca-pedia is worthless.


36 posted on 06/18/2006 2:09:15 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ("Liberals see what they believe... Conservatives believe what they see")
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

I just skimmed the discussion. IMHO it will survive the vote with a "no consensus" at worst, so we need not worry about it. (The discussion ought to be closed right now as a bad faith nomination, but that's not going to happen.)


39 posted on 06/18/2006 2:31:20 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (This tagline is false.)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

It's best to just not waste time with that awful site.


40 posted on 06/18/2006 2:36:45 PM PDT by Tim Long (I spit in the face of people who don't want to be cool.)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

The result of the debate was Keep, as the nomination was withdrawn by BenBurch.--Kchase02 T 21:40, 18 June 2006 (UTC)


46 posted on 06/18/2006 2:57:16 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.


47 posted on 06/18/2006 3:05:55 PM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of a Cancer on Society)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Sounds a bit like the Ministry of Truth in the novel 1984. If you don't like a fact, send it down the electronic memory hole. Let's all save a copy of the Protest Warrior file.


50 posted on 06/18/2006 3:48:05 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Irish_Thatcherite
This guy is a top level site sysop on wikipedia:

So is this "girl," who used to be a dude:

Wikipedia is owned by this guy, pictured here a few years ago when he was the owner of a large internet pornography website:

QUESTION TO ALL PARENTS:

Would you allow your kids to interact with any of these people in real life? If not, then why would you allow your kids to interact with them on Wikipedia, which they own, control, and operate? Keep your kids safe from freaks and web predators by blocking wikipedia now.

53 posted on 06/19/2006 10:40:36 AM PDT by lqclamar
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