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Save the Tristan Louis page on Wikipedia

A funny thing is hap­pen­ing on Wikipedia. A while back, for an exper­i­ment in track­ing how often Google updated its results with data from Wikipedia, I cre­ated a wikipedia page for myself on the site. I then promptly for­got about it until edits start­ing pop­ping up in my RSS aggre­ga­tor. Turns out the page is up for dele­tion and debate has ensued as to whether I should be deleted or not. That seri­ously hurts my ego! So, with­out fur­ther ado, I’d like to ask gen­tle read­ers to head to Wikipedia and put in your vote (login is free and easy, you should really do it as Wikipedia is a great ressource, even if they end up delet­ing me!)

It’s actu­ally a fas­ci­nat­ing look into par­tic­i­pa­tory edit­ing. There seems to be about three camps: one is say­ing delete, the other is say­ing keep and the third one is say­ing userfy, which means (from what I’m under­stand­ing) put this page under the name of the wikipedia user. That last one con­fuses me as it adds no value. It’s not often you get to read about your­self in such a way and it’s pretty inter­est­ing (and some­what telling) to see how this stuff breaks out.

Update:

Looks like it sur­vived the vote for dele­tion… Thanks to all who helped.

Originally published on June 12, 2005 in Personal . You may find related thoughts pieces under the following terms: