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description: ASCII by Jason Scott / Five Years of Great Failure "As I write this, Wikipedia is going through another destructive information fad – tons of computer history articles are being deleted, and people are letting me know of them. Every one that’s been deleted, I could do a really nice page on. In some cases, the number of people voting/discussing the deletion of an article are as little as 3-4. This is fine for me, as I’ll just bring the information back better, more completely, and better researched. I’ve been given a mandate to do so, after all. After I finish my movie, that’s where I’m turning. The entries on Impulse Tracker, Fidonews, SDF BBS, and many others are gone, but I’ll give those subjects their due, I promise." I tend to agree with Jason Scott on this. Why some good article in some area (like history of computer) are removed from Wikipedia? Especially if you want an exhaustive encyclopedia or maybe this should move to a raw archive article in Wikipedia?

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initially imported by adulau on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:59:23 +0000