Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Space Empire Elite

Why was the article deleted if the vote was 6-3-1 in favor of keeping it? Kirkman (talk) 23:30, 8 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Because WP has a broken AfD model with a strong bias against preserving information and an entrenched minority of technocrats that can leverage the ridiculously small quorum of three to override any semblance of democracy. Until they fix it, they will continue to scare away newcomers and valid, authoritative contributors who aren't willing to labor under the tedium of rules and requirements that the technocrats produce and thrive under.


 * There are important areas of history that were defined by a small group of people and may, for various reasons, lack citable sources. BBS history is a perfect example. Most of the information about BBSes were stored on BBSes. As a new medium with a tiny number of users relative to the Web, much of that information was lost under the tidal wave of information produced on the Web (i.e., the whole world). So we're left with, "If Google can't find it, it must not be true."


 * I wonder if any of the delete voters were active BBSers. If not (for argument's sake), then, in the eyes of most people, they would generally lack authority to contribute to a topic. Even so, on WP they are sufficiently authoritative to expunge an entire article under the broken AfD model. All they need is a pulse, a WP account, and two others who share their opinion.


 * WP should have a bias towards preserving information. I hope they fix this. Todd (talk) 18:38, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, the article has been preserved -- and already is being expanded -- on my new BBS door wiki, Break Into Chat. http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Space_Empire_Elite Kirkman (talk) 16:28, 13 December 2012 (UTC)