Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Orlowski (journalist)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was delete forked article. Mindmatrix 23:16, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Andrew Orlowski (journalist)
This is a verbatim copy of the existing Andrew Orlowski article with the text of the now-deleted article Wikifiddler inserted verbatim. It is possibly the most textbook case Wikipedia has ever seen of a bad-faith POV fork; did not want to abide by the consensus he thought the community might come to (which they did) to delete the contents of Wikifiddler, so he merged the contents to Andrew Orlowski. When that act was opposed, he took Andrew Orlowski (journalist), which should not have existed unless there was another notable Andrew Orlowski to differentiate from, and instead of making it a redirect, made it his own private version of the article, the way he wanted it. I have seen a number of POV forks in my time at Wikipedia, but never one so blatant, or so blatantly in bad faith. -- Antaeus Feldspar 01:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete WITHOUT MERGE per own nom. -- Antaeus Feldspar 01:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Act per nom --Cyde Weys talkcontribs 01:28, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete to deter wikifiddling. Capitalistroadster 02:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't have a problem with Wikipedia being criticised, but this kind of bad faith POV bullshit has to stop. Reyk 06:06, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No gaming the system. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 06:59, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Andrew Orlowski, do not merge. Copy-pasting Wikifiddler to another article is trying to cheat its AfD process. &mdash; J I P  | Talk 07:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. No question on this one. --Krich 01:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Chick Bowen 01:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Neier 05:31, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this fork. Stifle 10:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.