[WikiEN-l] GNAA Deleted!

Tue Nov 28 21:06:48 UTC 2006

A large amount of them were trolling attempts that were immediately closed,
so it's not like there were actually 18 attempts at deleting the article.
Many of them (in fact, I think most) were just by trolls to get a rise out
of people.

On 11/28/06, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> TD wrote:
> > I applaud the culture shift that has taken place on Wikipedia that
> > has allowed [[Gay Nigger Association of America]] to be deleted
>
> And at the risk of sounding contentious, I must deplore it.
> It was the fifth or sixth deletion attempt that got me involved
> in Wikipedia in the first place.  As I wrote in my very first
> contribution as a registered user, during the July 2005 deletion
> nomination,
>
>         ...true story: this morning I was idly curious about GNAA,
>         and was pleased to discover the Wikipedia article, so
>         that I didn't have to favor GNAA's site with an undeserved
>         hit.  Trolls they certainly are, and sad it is that
>         they've become "notable", but like it or not, they are,
>         and the article is wholly appropriate.
>
> And that's my opinion (or would be my opinion, if we still had
> the article) today.
>
> Have there really been *twelve* more attempts?  (The fact that it
> took that many has got to say something...)
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