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Hi Mujinga - Thanks for your offer - I've replied on my user talk page. NickW 12:12, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
yeah, i was kinda surprised that it got deleted, after i threw in references and cleaned it up as fast as i could. it's easily as notable as any other bicycle club that has a page. oh well. let me know if you get it up and want help with it. cheers! Murderbike 04:11, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Mujinga 04:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
hmmm, would it be in contributions history? i've never looked for a deleted page before. as for knowing them, i don't know any of them, have just been around them at critical masses in pdx and whatnot while visiting, and being "accused" of being a member because i was riding a tall bike. i don't THINK that it had a stub tag on it, but i can't be sure. oh, thanks for linking to anarchopedia, i had no idea that existed, and it looks like they could use some help. cheers! Murderbike 04:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
if somebody would call it a stub, i would definitely say it was a big stub. god that sounds ridiculous. enjoy your week away! Murderbike 04:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
2007-01-08T08:41:48 RHaworth (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "C.h.u.n.k. 666" (vanity article about totally nn-group)
I see you deleted C.h.u.n.k. 666 on January 8, reason given - "vanity article about totally nn-group". Now I didn't see what state the article was in, but I can provide references from reliable sources which prove the group's notability (such as an article about it in 'The Village Voice' and a reference from the book 'Critical mass: bicycling's defiant celebration'), so I would like to recreate the article. We can put it up for deletion review, or I can create it again if it was just a stub. I saw this right now and I'm probably not going to be online for the next week or so, so there's no immediate rush, but i wanted to contact you as a first step. If you can let me see the article as it was, that would be helpful. I will inform Murderbike and Quackking because they seem to have been involved, although I'm not aware of created the article. Cheers, Mujinga 04:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
I am fed up with this place.
I tried to create an interesting article (FYI, I am in no way associated with CHUNK 6.6.6., being a plus 50-ish multiple century (that is, 100-mile-ride) bike rider with a variety of interests, among which I do NOT include practical applications of anarchy) and the insinuation that it was some sort of vanity piece says a lot more about the person who said it than it does about me. The so-called 'removal of delete tags' or whatever you refer to, was not malicious, but in fact was a natural reaction by a fairly competent software dude (me) to what I thought was unexpected and unexplained behavior by the wiki engine - as soon as I realized that it was a PERSON putting in the delete tag I stopped removing it.
The smallest search of Wayback would immediately have revealed that the 'pretentious' phraseology this Hayworth character finds so non- whatever, was actually part of the manifesto of the group, a literal quote from their organizing documents (or whatever passes for the equivalent in an anarchist bicycle strike force.) Ditto the references to 'post-apocalyptic', and it is a serious violation of any editorial code worthy of the name to avoid substituting the editor's version of what is normative for that of his subject in a story. (Not to fly my flag, but I have published tens of dozens of articles in big trade papers, general circ mags, op-eds in the Christian Science Monitor, Detroit News and the Boston Globe, etc etc. I may not be Shakespeare but I also ain't chopped liver.)
Similarly I posted what I thought was a reasonable, inoffensive and informative piece on the etymology of the word 'Hoodsie', as is used in Boston slang.
Whack! 'WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A DICTIONARY' was the kindly comment which accompanied that particular commissar's judgment. Oh, really? I can point to dozens of similar definitional entries. But apparently there are those who have, in fact, woken up as Pope, and who enjoy swanning about waving 'delete flags', like some invisible squad of Red Queens in the increasingly unbreathable air of this through-the-looking-glass wonderland. 'Off with her head!'
These supercilious attitudes that seem to characterize many of those who appear to occupy the chairs of authority around here have chased me away. Puts me in mind of a 60's bitch slapdown between aging gays (again, I am not one of them either.) The only actual positive feedback I have seen here was relating to the first thing I posted, but I am afraid to even mention that, since it now seems highly likely that by calling attention to it I will doom it to a summary execution.
Remind me again of 'wiki standards'; is that some sort of digital version of the Academe Francais?
I thought not.
Good luck with reviving the post, but another French phrase (translated here) seems likely to be the reward - 'The more you kiss their ass, the more they shit on your head.'
Goodbye.
goodbye for good or just for now? i also found it a shame that the chunk page was deleted but having seen it now, i can understand why. it could definitely be done better. its at the top of my 'to do' list, but for a few real-life reasons i dont have much time right now. hopefully soon that will change. what i have done so far is to dredge up some references and the page is sitting here. if you have time/inclination to help me pull it into shape, please do.
for the rest, your rant does ring some bells round these parts, but please dont get too depressed with wikipedia. there is a battle for knowledge going on and if we dont fight it no-one else will! Mujinga 10:57, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I reinstated the page and copied over your work into the 'about' section. I added some other links and stuff... we'll see how it goes. Also, I created a new category: bicycle gangs. :) I am affiliated with a different bike gang. Rururudy 07:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
hey thats awesome, nice one!! i was moving pretty slowly on that one so im glad you did it. if i have time/inclination i will try to add stuff too. cheers and happy biking. Mujinga 22:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello, per Wikipedia:Harassment#Types_of_harassment/posting of personal information, links to Wikipedia Review are disallowed. It is an attack site that cannot be linked to, advertised, or promoted, supported by previous ArbCom decisions. I've removed this link and promotion of a hostile site that attacks and attempts to out the IRL identities of Wikipedians from your user page, per this:
"Posting information on, or implying how to find, or simply posting the address of a website which publishes such information is also harassment, regardless of whether the posted link is live or just a bare URL. This is because it places the other person at unjustified and uninvited risk of harm in "the real world" or other media. This applies whether or not the person whose personal information is being revealed is a Wikipedia editor.""
Thanks for your understanding. - Denny (talk) 16:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
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Excellent work. I had the misfortune to be there and the good fortune to start the article and great to see your excellent efforts, SqueakBox 18:52, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
--thanks for the (very fast) reaction! i have edited the page before and now im just whacking in a few references from the links section - shame that the person who left the "fact" tags couldnt have done that himself or herself ... Mujinga 18:58, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
I have asked for a deletion review of TerrorStorm. Since you showed interest in the discussion, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — Xiutwel (talk) 22:45, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
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