Ahh – so that makes some sense then.

Is then the main article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup

If so, that makes more sense.

That's still not quite an article (although it is more formal). You'll see it still has "project page" at the top left. As a rule if it has a colon…

I 'm super-glad that I've been able to sit down with my kids and research stuff that is, in the scheme of things, trivial: yes, it's good that there's a place where every pokemon is named. And where porn stars have articles.

I have to ask the obvious question... you…

http://www.websnark.com/archives/2004/11/a_modest_webcom.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/09/a_revised_modes.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2006/04/this_is_like_a_1.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/10/on_the_other_ha_15.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/11/however_the_ent.html
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2006/10/time_for_the_ye.html

I didn't mean to pick out Simon, lin or gadfium for criticism, hope it didn't come across that way.

Nope. It's turned into an interesting observation, to which others have provided context.

I'm actually dubious about pseudonyms – I think it encourages the unhelpful development of personae – but I'll…

Is then the main article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup

If so, that makes more sense.

Seems to me that the arguing of semantics and some fine splitting of hairs is causing grief. Which is possibly inherent in something such as wikipedia.

I didn't mean to…

what I don't understand is how this wiki article does NOT get deleted

Because it is not an "article". If you see 2 tabs to the left of "edit this page" where is says "project page". If you look at Kiwi Foo Camp you'll see that it says article. And…

what I don't understand is how this wiki article does NOT get deleted

Well, it eventually turns into something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland_1

It funny that it's there on the public encyclopedia, but it's good that there are people occasionally meeting up, sharing a commitment to the public good, etc. But…

What's really confusing me though – after reading the AFD thread, and what is currently standing as the Foo Camp entry – and sort of understanding…

the keener WP editors often seem to be exclusionist.

I've wondered whether this is because with the number of articles possibly increasing exponentially, it becomes harder to ensure that people notice stupid stuff being added. And believe me, there is a lot of stupid stuff added.

I also struggle a…

On the other hand, I guess a line has to be drawn, otherwise people will have wikipedia articles for dinner parties.

Or Wikipedia turns into MySpace.

It's interesting that Net perople tend to be inclusionist – that is, a low bar – while the keener WP editors often seem to…

A couple of clicks and it took me to this gem of a speech from Peter Dunne (on the motion confirming the membership of the Security and Intelligence Committee):

I have three very brief comments on the actual motion: firstly, United…

John Key ferried that girl from McGehan Close around (which, depending on your view, was either a great human gesture or a blatant press opportunity)

It was both. He ALMOST dug himself a big hole with that Burnside speech, but he's dug himself out of it now, bigtime.

My worst experience was to find myself in an edit…

I think it was being called a spammer that really got Juha going. I mean, them's fightin' words ...

There are some people who spend all day doing "cleaning" jobs. Going through and deleting what they consider to be irrelevant or too commercial links, and judging by their contributions, they spend an amount of time doing that sort of stuff.

And most of it looks quite reasonable. I dunno,…

Duh, I don't know why I said "speedy deletion" throughout my comment – obviously my brain is not happy after 6 hours' sleep. I was intending to refer to the usual deletion process for non-notablilty.

Ah. That makes a bit more sense. I don't think I would have objected at…

His (non-profit, non-commercial) site offers pages for each MP which, among other things, automatically provide the Hansard of that MP's most recent speeches in…

And with that statement about the Kiwi FooCamp being an ongoing event, well, yes, it…

On a more mundane…

And I don't think even the relatively brief original text met the listed standard for speedy deletion of "patent nonsense, advertising, pure vandalism" or "utter rubbish".

Umm, the two words preceding your quote there are "for example" : )
If you go to the full list of speedy criteria, you'll…

I hear the…

I hope it stays and have added my comments to the discussion.

There does seem to…

I can totally see why it was put in the Speedy Deletion category, but not that it was yanked twice with no discussion. That's bloody rude.

It was. And the fact that the hostile editor has shown no interest in the AFD discussion seems like more rudeness to me.

I…

The reason that I can see why it's a candidate for Speedy Deletion is that there is no indication that this is an ongoing…

Like most professional writers you are protective of what you write and expect editors to be collaborators not adversaries. Unfortunately Wikipedia isn't always like that.

Thanks. I'm still struggling to see a basis in good faith for what happened – not least because it seemed to trample on Wikipedia's own…