The Usual Idiots at Wikipedia are Trying to Delete Don Webb’s Entry

This entry, here. Evidently publishing some dozen-odd books doesn’t make you “notable” enough.

The deletion discussion page is here.

At this point I would rant about the deletion of my own entry from Wikipedia a year ago by some wrestling fan who objected to the review Howard Waldrop and I did of the Watchmen movie, but that would mean actually caring what the usual Wikipedia idiot zealots think. It’s simply wiser and easier to ignore them entirely.

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4 Responses to “The Usual Idiots at Wikipedia are Trying to Delete Don Webb’s Entry”

  1. Earl Cooley III says:

    Let’s see, here’s a start on dead tree references to Don Webb’s notability….

    The Austin Chronicle, Vol. 17 No. 47, July 31, 1998: Webb on the Web, by Jon Lebkowsky.

  2. Earl Cooley III says:

    The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection, Gardner R. Dozois (Editor) includes the short story “A Visit to the Farside”, by Don Webb.

  3. Number of books published is not a criterion, I gather. I’ve never had a Wikipedia page to be deleted.

  4. Kate says:

    When I was briefly involved (trying to save a new publisher’s page) it turns out that dead tree reviews, etc. don’t count much — it’s stuff on the Internet that can be linked in. From their viewpoint, if it can’t be instantly verified with a click, what good is it to them? From my POV, I go to libraries, so a footnote leading to something in my hands is reassuring.

    I lost most interest in Wikipedia when a sub-link led to a Trojan. Use caution….

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