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Out WikiPedia, Hello Encyclopedia of Stupid

May 20, 2006 by Liz

Wikipedia Called Us Nonsense

So maybe you were around when we got mired in the labyrinth of the Wikipedia, or when we tried to find out why an article, written by Martin Neumann of the Small Office Herald about the Link Leak Virus, a term coined by Mike Sigers, was summarily deleted within minutes of it’s submission.

I actually wrote to Wikipedia about the situation. The official Wikipedia response to my email said I’d get a response in a few minutes . . . that was over 13 days ago. Hope the young man took food and water with him. A reader friend let us know that some editor said that it was “nonsense.” Kudos to the Advice Librarian who helped us make sense of everything.

We at Successful Blog needed that. We hadn’t had our ideas or our writing called nonsense by a stranger who didn’t know us for a very long while.

Finally I’ve found the home for us — The Encyclopedia of Stupid! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Strategy/Analysis, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, blog_promotion, Encyclopedia_of_Stupid, Link_Leak, link_leak_virus, Martin_Neumann, Mike_Sigers, Wikipedia, ZZZ-FUN

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