Some dufus is trying to get the Jaiku entry deleted from Wikipedia
And for the life of me I can’t quite figure out why. The best I could decipher out of the language on it’s articles for deletion entry is that the person who nominated it for deletion doesn’t think it’s “notable”.
There was a poster a while back (I’ve gone through the older posts butcan’t find the specific threads) that was leaving rather bitchy comments on Leo’s Jaiku posts when Leo switched to it and left Twitter. The posted reason for deletion on the Articles for Deletion page makes me wonder if it isn’t the same guy. The bit at the end where it says:
“a single blog entry does not satisfy WP:RS when all it says is, “I’m switching my service from Twitter to Jaiku,” regardless of the notability of the blogger”
sounds remarkably like the rhetoric that guy was spewing. He had a serious case of the cranky about people being “popular bloggers”, like it was some sort of odious aristocracy or something else crazy.
And no matter who submitted it, wouldn’t it be a better solution to flesh out the article with other sources rather than delete it altogether? I don’t fully understand the jargon so I could be way off base here, but it looks a bit petty to my eyes.
Of course, it’s probably just the natural Wikipedian tendency to delete anything they think is a “blog” or webcomic or anything else “not notable.” I’ve never understood the prejudice against blogs and
webcomics and such on Wikipedia. It’s like they acknowledge that the internet is a strong enough cultural force to justify housing a large repository of world knowledge on it, but at the same time they think it’s too fadish to put anything that is exclusively of the internet in said repository.
Sorry, elitism makes me ranty. 
Update June 11: It was saved! Hurrah!
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