Mon 25 Feb 2008
Chicago 2016 Update: Link to DanielHonigman.com gets deleted on Wikipedia…twice
Posted by Daniel under Chicago 2016
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Evidently, someone doesn’t like me.
Seeing as I’m Google’s #1-ranked blogger for most terms related to the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid, I tried linking my “Chicago 2016″ category page to Wikipedia’s entry for the bid as an external link.
It was deleted. Twice.
Here’s a question for you: DanielHonigman.com gets all sorts of visits from folks looking for information about the bid, and I’d like to think it’s a good resources for them. Was it wrong for me to try to promote my page on Wikipedia as a source? If not, was it wrong for it to be deleted? The other two external links up there are the official Chicago 2016 committee page and the Chicago African American Olympic Committee page.
I mean, if I didn’t regularly add bid-related content from various news sources, I wouldn’t have added it. What do you think?
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March 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm[…] When a link to my page was deleted from Wikipedia’s entry on the Chicago 2016 Olympic […]
February 25th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Maybe some crazy from your past doesn’t like you, nor wants you to have wiki fame.
Probably not though..
Why don’t you just email wikipedia and ask? Maybe they can control it to some extent.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Wikipedia is a great source for researching things, but the editors and regular contributors tend to be a bunch of bureaucratic loonies.
When it comes to Wikipedia my philosophy is all take, no give.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Personally, I think Mollie is doing it just to mess with you.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Mollie - I wish.
Tim - Ha. I read this piece in the New Yorker on Wikipedia awhile back. Could make for some good reading.
Katie - Touche…
February 26th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Are you talking about your link being deleted from the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid page or was there an Article for deletion discussion on an article about your website. If the latter I am WP user TonyTheTiger. Leave a comment on my user talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TonyTheTiger )
February 26th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Tony - My link. I listed it in the “External Links” section of the page. It wasn’t an article.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Tony - Ha, you’re from Amherst. I graduated from UB in ‘06. Man, I miss Mighty Taco!
March 9th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Daniel - if you are interested in the Olympic games please go to my site about All Olympic Games winners of the all times. Thanks