It has recently come to my attention that the page for "Digital Medievalist" in Wikipedia has been deleted by the administrators on the grounds that it "read like an advertisement". Apparently the entry needs to be sober and encyclopedic and cite third party references. Easy enough to do, but apparently no one did.
(I'm just fresh from the battle to prevent the same happening to the Digital Classicist entry, but does anyone want to come along and help reinstate the DM page?)
Cheers,
Dr Gabriel BODARD
Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX
Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80
I thought that the Wikipedia rules stated that people involved in a particular enterprise might not be the ones that write the opening post about it. Am I wrong about this?
BB
On 1 Mar 2007, at 19:29, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
It has recently come to my attention that the page for "Digital Medievalist" in Wikipedia has been deleted by the administrators on the grounds that it "read like an advertisement". Apparently the entry needs to be sober and encyclopedic and cite third party references. Easy enough to do, but apparently no one did.
(I'm just fresh from the battle to prevent the same happening to the Digital Classicist entry, but does anyone want to come along and help reinstate the DM page?)
Cheers,
Dr Gabriel BODARD
Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX
Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80
Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/ rss2.cfm Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/ listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist@uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
That's true, and a good point. I don't know how tightly we ought to interpret "involved in", though? In this case, at least, nobody who isn't "involved in" DM in some sense would be particularly qualified to write the article, would they? Perhaps the most involved people, editors, and such, shouldn't write the article. In which case we need volunteers from interested lurkers etc. to write the entry. (It would, after all, be odd to ban all members from writing about the organisation as a whole, wouldn't it?)
G
Barbara Bordalejo a écrit :
I thought that the Wikipedia rules stated that people involved in a particular enterprise might not be the ones that write the opening post about it. Am I wrong about this?
BB
On 1 Mar 2007, at 19:29, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
It has recently come to my attention that the page for "Digital Medievalist" in Wikipedia has been deleted by the administrators on the grounds that it "read like an advertisement". Apparently the entry needs to be sober and encyclopedic and cite third party references. Easy enough to do, but apparently no one did.
(I'm just fresh from the battle to prevent the same happening to the Digital Classicist entry, but does anyone want to come along and help reinstate the DM page?)
Cheers,
Dr Gabriel BODARD
Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX
Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80
Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist@uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist@uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
On Thu, 2007-01-03 at 19:47 +0000, Barbara Bordalejo wrote:
I thought that the Wikipedia rules stated that people involved in a particular enterprise might not be the ones that write the opening post about it. Am I wrong about this?
Since Gabriel is really a Digital Classicist, he might be just the person to launch the reinstatement!
BB
On 1 Mar 2007, at 19:29, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
It has recently come to my attention that the page for "Digital Medievalist" in Wikipedia has been deleted by the administrators on the grounds that it "read like an advertisement". Apparently the entry needs to be sober and encyclopedic and cite third party references. Easy enough to do, but apparently no one did.
(I'm just fresh from the battle to prevent the same happening to the Digital Classicist entry, but does anyone want to come along and help reinstate the DM page?)
Cheers,
Dr Gabriel BODARD
Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX
Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80
Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/ rss2.cfm Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/ listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist@uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist@uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
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