Oh my lord!  We have the Wikipedia Police!  That deserves a Wikipedia page
all it's own.

Allen

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Standlee, Kevin <
standlee.ke...@menloworldwide.com> wrote:

>  I don’t know of automated systems, but of course other people can undo
> people’s edits. Look at a pages History to see who made the changes.
>
>
>
> Kevin
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>
>
> *From:* basfa-boun...@lists.basfa.org [mailto:
> basfa-boun...@lists.basfa.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark Jansen
> *Sent:* Monday, February 28, 2011 9:57 AM
> *To:* basfa@lists.basfa.org
> *Cc:* allen.wadd...@gmail.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Basfa] Basfa Digest, Vol 47, Issue 14
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>
>
> Here’s a really stupid question:
>
>
>
> I’ve made Wikipedia entries and edits over the years, but a friend has
> recently tried but his edits get consistently rejected. Doesn’t seem like
> he’s adding any inaccurate, offensive, or self-serving content. Is there
> some new form of vetting or auto-reject mechanism in effect on Wikipedia?
>
>
>
> Tnanks,
>
>
>
> Mark Jansen
>   ------------------------------
>
> *From:* basfa-boun...@lists.basfa.org [mailto:
> basfa-boun...@lists.basfa.org] *On Behalf Of *allen.wadd...@gmail.com
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 27, 2011 6:15 PM
> *To:* basfa@lists.basfa.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Basfa] Basfa Digest, Vol 47, Issue 14
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>
>
> This is probably a stupid question but I noticed the BASFA web page does
> not link to the wikipedia entry either. Could you add that link to the links
> page at basfa.com?
>
> Allen Waddell
> deep lurker
>
> On Feb 27, 2011 10:04am, basfa-requ...@lists.basfa.org wrote:
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> > 1. Re: BASFA Wikipedia Listing Threatened (Bob)
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> > 2. Re: BASFA Wikipedia Listing Threatened (Lisa Deutsch Harrigan)
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> > 3. Re: BASFA Wikipedia Listing Threatened (Rick Moen)
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> > Message: 1
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> > Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:32:59 -0800
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> > From: Bob rhole2...@gmail.com>
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> > To: "Standlee, Kevin" standlee.ke...@menloworldwide.com>
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> > Cc: "BASFA \(ba...@basfa.org\)" ba...@basfa.org>
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> > Subject: Re: [Basfa] BASFA Wikipedia Listing Threatened
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> > Message-ID:
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> > zy9p5ycflrjgj9qgu3hmr98...@mail.gmail.com>
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> > My IP address (as usual - regardless of where I live or try to access)
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> > is blocked from signing in to Wikipedia. The major complaint seems to
> >
> > be lack of external "independent" web pages mentioning BASFA.
> >
> >
> >
> > In addition to argument, providing such links and information would be
> >
> > of help to prevent the deletion or threat of deletion for the future.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you own an appropriate website, it might be a good thing to put
> >
> > some information about BASFA on it, then provide someone who can edit
> >
> > the Wikipedia page with the link.
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> >
> > Here's what I can offer:
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> >
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> > http://www.radio-sf.com/home/radio-scifi-links
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> >
> > And a link for the twitter hashtag #basfa (so talk it up people -
> >
> > right now there's only one tweet listed! "older tweets no available")
> >
> >
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> > http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23basfa
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> > Science Fiction/San Francisco (which publishes the minutes)
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> > http://efanzines.com/SFSF/index.htm
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> > Hope that helps!
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> >
> > Bob
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> > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Standlee, Kevin
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> > standlee.ke...@menloworldwide.com> wrote:
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> > > BASFA's listing in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basfa has
> been marked for deletion, again, by the exclusionist "RadioFan," who as far
> as I can tell only wants things included in Wikipedia that he's personally
> heard of or that have been printed in paper form that can also be seen
> online. *grump* People who can argue for the "notability" of the club in the
> labyrinthine way that Wikipedia discusses things may want to get involved
> here.
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> > > Kevin
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> > ------------------------------
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> > Message: 2
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> > Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:15:05 -0800
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> > From: Lisa Deutsch Harrigan l...@harrigan.org>
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> > To: "BASFA \(ba...@basfa.org\)" ba...@basfa.org>
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> > Subject: Re: [Basfa] BASFA Wikipedia Listing Threatened
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> > Message-ID: 4d697b69.7060...@harrigan.org>
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> > Not sure where to put this in our wikipedia article, but File 770 has a
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> > brief article on us http://file770.com/?p=1668 . If nothing else, it
> >
> > shows that someone thought we were worthy of a News Report.
> >
> >
> >
> > Lisa
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/26/2011 8:28 AM, Standlee, Kevin wrote:
> >
> > > BASFA's listing in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basfa has
> been marked for deletion, again, by the exclusionist "RadioFan," who as far
> as I can tell only wants things included in Wikipedia that he's personally
> heard of or that have been printed in paper form that can also be seen
> online. *grump* People who can argue for the "notability" of the club in the
> labyrinthine way that Wikipedia discusses things may want to get involved
> here.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Kevin
> >
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> > Message: 3
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> > Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:10:55 -0800
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> > From: Rick Moen r...@linuxmafia.com>
> >
> > To: basfa@lists.basfa.org
> >
> > Subject: Re: [Basfa] BASFA Wikipedia Listing Threatened
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> > Message-ID: 20110226231055.ga32...@linuxmafia.com>
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> > Quoting Lisa Deutsch Harrigan (l...@harrigan.org):
> >
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> > > Not sure where to put this in our wikipedia article, but File 770
> >
> > > has a brief article on us http://file770.com/?p=1668 . If nothing
> >
> > > else, it shows that someone thought we were worthy of a News Report.
> >
> >
> >
> > What is needed is items that can be credibly maintained to be mentions
> >
> > in paper media.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is an SFGate.com citation of BASFA in a June 26, 2005 article by
> >
> > reporters Delfin Vigil and Michael Berry about Bay Area bookstores.
> >
> > It's somewhere between possible and likely that the articles.sfgate.com
> >
> > item reflects a contemporaneous article in the _S.F. Chronicle_, though
> >
> > I can't prove that.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-06-26/entertainment/17377296_1_fiction-sci-fi-science
> >
> >
> >
> > It's a pity that the BASFA Web site hasn't kept links to articles that
> >
> > mention us, as I'm sure there have been a few; they're just challenging
> >
> > to find. Our current archive for the mailing list goes back only to
> >
> > 2007. I've searched the cumulative mbox file
> >
> > (
> http://lists.basfa.org/private.cgi/basfa-basfa.org.mbox/basfa-basfa.org.mbox
> ),
> >
> > and it has plenty of mentions of magazine articles on a variety of
> >
> > things, but none about BASFA itself.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Rick Moen "People who spell 'voila' as 'viola' should be
> >
> > r...@linuxmafia.com responded to with voilence." -- FakeAPStylebook
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> > McQ! (4x80)
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