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I'm curious, what article was deleted that you can cite as an example of destruction of knowledge?

edit: it's a serious question! Instead of down voting, just tell me. Or even downvote, but at least tell me.




A couple of local (or internet-local) bands. One BBC documentary about a particular subculture that I was interested in at the time. One (fairly obscure, but involving some minor technical firsts) video game.

All pop-cultural ephemera perhaps, but the sort of thing that qualifies as knowledge in my book.


Deletionpedia is no longer kept up but I used to enjoy browsing it to see what was deleted .

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php


Some observations from looking through these:

* Huge amounts of various fictional universe lore, similar to the article

* quite a few bands

* some percentage of articles exists again, with better content


The discussion over deleting "Boomerang Engineer" is kind of funny. "totally improbable specialization. Throw it away (and hope it doesn't return):"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...


It's the main subject of the article. There are currently 721 pokemons, but less than 40 of them have an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Pok%C3%A9mon_director...

Also note that I didn't say destruction of knowledge, but destruction of value(data), which is a very different thing. I don't need to care about pokemons, or star trek episodes to understand that some people might be interested in documenting and organizing those. Maybe Wikipedia isn't the place. It doesn't mean the Wikimedia foundation could not provide an open solution.


Try Wikidata.

Now Wikidata is cool.

https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page


And the full lists have info about all of them, just grouped in batches of 50. I don't think the pokemons are a good example of "lost content".




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