It certainly seems to have its own culture, and way of doing things that are not exactly academic. I joined early last year in order to create the Modern Gallae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Gallae) page. I've edited a few other pages as well, with various scontent and interest. Mind you, the expertise I've developed in doing that, has come in handy in working with the ComicGenesis Wiki (http://cgwiki.comicgenesis.com/index.php/Main_Page) (which is much less pretentious, and more self-serving).
That fact that anyone can alter a page initially suggests some sort of evolution and refinement in content, but that's not really the case, is it? Of course the other thing is, just because you want the page deleted, should it be? If Harrison Ford or Vladimir Putin wanted their pages deleted (I'm sure they both have one), should they be?
I guess the question I'm putting here is this - have you become enough of a public figure in comics/web comics to justify a page (not necessarily the one that's there at the moment)? For example, if I follow the What links here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Jenn_Dolari) link, I find that (apart from the 9 "housekeeping" entries) there are 8 pages with content that link to the page. Now they could link to your user page, but that wouldn't really be appropriate, as you may not be a user for much longer.
Perhaps a rewrite by another wiki user would be preferable - that couldn't be contested or claimed to be a "vanity post". I'd volunteer to do this, but maybe I'm not the best qualified to do so.
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Mixed experience of wikipedia
Date: 2007-01-24 03:24 pm (UTC)It certainly seems to have its own culture, and way of doing things that are not exactly academic. I joined early last year in order to create the Modern Gallae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Gallae) page. I've edited a few other pages as well, with various scontent and interest. Mind you, the expertise I've developed in doing that, has come in handy in working with the ComicGenesis Wiki (http://cgwiki.comicgenesis.com/index.php/Main_Page) (which is much less pretentious, and more self-serving).
That fact that anyone can alter a page initially suggests some sort of evolution and refinement in content, but that's not really the case, is it? Of course the other thing is, just because you want the page deleted, should it be? If Harrison Ford or Vladimir Putin wanted their pages deleted (I'm sure they both have one), should they be?
I guess the question I'm putting here is this - have you become enough of a public figure in comics/web comics to justify a page (not necessarily the one that's there at the moment)? For example, if I follow the What links here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Jenn_Dolari) link, I find that (apart from the 9 "housekeeping" entries) there are 8 pages with content that link to the page. Now they could link to your user page, but that wouldn't really be appropriate, as you may not be a user for much longer.
Perhaps a rewrite by another wiki user would be preferable - that couldn't be contested or claimed to be a "vanity post". I'd volunteer to do this, but maybe I'm not the best qualified to do so.