[Wikipedia-l] Re: No new wikis

Sat Jul 19 02:55:17 UTC 2003

Tarquin wrote:

> basically... Sep11,wikipedia.org was created to appease people 
> protesting against the deletion of acticles on victims of the Sep11 
> attacks who were pure nobodies and didn't belong in Wikipedia.

They weren't pure nobodies, just not people you would look up in an 
encyclopedia... even one that isn't paper.

The attempt at appeasement didn't really work, and so the Sep11 wiki is 
little more than a warehouse for the tributes that people wrote to their 
loved ones.

- Stephen G.