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Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions
ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "Howard Tayler, the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary fame, is calling on people not to donate money during the latest Wikimedia Foundation fund-raiser. This is to protest the 'notability purges' taking place throughout Wikipedia, where articles are being removed en-masse by what many see as overzealous admins. The webcomic community in particular has long felt slighted by the application of Wikipedia's contentious Notability policy. Wikinews reporters have recently begun investigating this issue, but are the admins listening?"
Don't bother wasting your energy arguing with that guy (Ta_bu_shi_da_yu). I don't see how his posts are informative or insightful but he was modded up nonetheless. The moderator skipped posts like yours that points out critical observations. If he's not a karma whore, he apparently knows how to game the system to gain status. When it comes to debate about the privileged few and the masses like you and me, how can he be sympathetic about the masses?
I once had a signature.