User talk:Hostingcomparison/sandbox

Considering the removal of the link by Dicklyon (for reason: Not an authoritative page.)
this is the link im talking about:
 * File Sharing Portal A more extensive comparison table of one-click hosters.

Let's tell the tale of the Comparison of the one-click hosters:

Once upon a time (2006) there was an article on wikipedia called Comparison of the one-click hosters. This is it's history. As you can see in the revisions, it was an extensive comparison table. At some point (around october 2006) it is put up for articles for deletion. The result is keep. Please have a look at this AfD.

One year later... ...two users Hu12 and  Boffob decide that only One-click Hosters with wikipedia articles must be included in the table, because anything else is spam, spam and spam. They start an editing war against the rest of the community, which lasts all the way till June 6, when Hu12 conveniently settles the argument by deleting the page, it's history, it's talk page and by redirecting it into File Hosting Service and protecting that redirection as per  CSD:G6. Point final. All them damn spammers trying to make wikipedia a useful place. Give the boy another medal! Thanks Hu12.

But what about me? I had been using this list all the time through, not noticing anything of the war that was going on. On 6th of June, I noticed that this list was no longer there. Neither it's history, nothing. I thought bugger. That they delete it is one thing, but that there is no way to get to this info anymore is quite problematic. So I started searching and ended up filing this deletion review. You see, if you quickly need to get a file accross to someone, you can end up in all sorts of adventures taking hours of your otherwise useless time.

So, Hu12 restored the history of the page, not the page itself, not it's talk page. How all that part of the wikocracy works was explained by Daniel on my talk page. I thought fine, at least I have this info back. I don't care where it is, as long as it's not gone. And I don't feel connected to wikipedia at all, so I don't feel like having discussion like this with other users consuming all my otherwise useless time. So I put in practice If all else fails, try another wiki.

So far so good, but...


 * 1) considering all of the above
 * 2) considering that it is scandalous as it is
 * 3) considering that a lot of people used this table and are looking for it
 * 4) considering that the page in question now redirects here
 * 5) considering that if you search google you end up on this page
 * 6) considering that authoritative is a very subjective therm (regardless what Wikipedia Policies say about this, I don't read them, so I don't know), but that I don't want to start a discussion about that here
 * 7) considering that about this subject there are no "authoritative" resources
 * 8) considering that this content is usefull
 * 9) considering that it is factual
 * 10) considering that it is not commercial
 * 11) considering that everything in this table has been double checked and made up to date

I would like to ask you (Dicklyon) to pick a (re)solution from the following sensible options:
 * 1) Restore Comparison of one-click hosters, and take Hu12's admin rights for scandalous abuse of them.
 * 2) Restore the link.

As im not a wikipedian, im not going to revert your edit, and leave the decision making process up to you.


 * greets Hostingcomparison (talk) 18:30, 1 July 2008 (UTC)