Wikipedia Red Faction: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:49, 7 September 2004

The Wikipedia Red Faction was disbanded by its creator, English Wikipedia User Plato, and deleted, under pressure from Abe Sokolov and English Wikipedia User Guanaco. Upon its disband, Plato was complimented by the fundamentalist Christian English Wikipedia User Jrosenszweig who was evidently pleased that factions of Reds were not allowed at Wikipedia - while factions such as his own remained welcome to push their POV constantly.

Abe Sokolov listed it on votes for deletion, which is not supposed to apply to user pages, but no matter - consensus during the VfD vote was to leave the page alone. However this made it clear to Plato that sysop power structure was inalterably opposed to m:factionalism or representative democracy of any kind.

The faction's page was formerly at [1] and listed various current and honorary members.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-The '''Wikipedia Red Faction''' was disbanded by its creator, [[English Wikipedia User Plato]], and deleted, not by the nonexistent fundamentalist Christian [[English Wikipedia User Jrosensweig]] (as the person often thought to be [[Craig Hubley]] once alleged), but by [[English Wikipedia User Guanaco]]. [[Abe Sokolov]] listed it on votes for deletion, which is not supposed to apply to user pages, but no matter - consensus during the VfD vote was to leave the page alone.
+The '''Wikipedia Red Faction''' was disbanded by its creator, [[English Wikipedia User Plato]], and deleted, under pressure from [[Abe Sokolov]] and   [[English Wikipedia User Guanaco]].  Upon its disband, Plato was complimented by the fundamentalist Christian [[English Wikipedia User Jrosenszweig]] who was evidently pleased that [[faction]]s of [[Reds]] were not allowed at Wikipedia - while factions such as his own remained welcome to push their POV constantly.
-The page was formerly at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Plato/red_faction]
+[[Abe Sokolov]] listed it on votes for deletion, which is not supposed to apply to user pages, but no matter - consensus during the VfD vote was to leave the page alone.  However this made it clear to Plato that [[sysop power structure]] was inalterably opposed to [[m:factionalism]] or [[representative democracy]] of any kind.
+The faction's page was formerly at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Plato/red_faction] and listed various current and honorary members.