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10:44 EST April 15 2008 - I keep finding pages that have been deleted.  I just added a {unreferenced} tag to a Wiki deletion policy page.  I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this.  What degree of crap will be flung can only be imagined.   

I undid your edit to ignore all rules, as it was not in the spirit of Wikipedia.  See Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.

That should be Wikipedia:What ""Ignore all rules"" means.  Please sign your entries by typing four tildes.
  

Have you read Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers yet?
  

 Except when you violate the rules about creating articles 

You said: Except when you violate the rules about creating articles, in which case the page in violation will be quickly deleted, leaving no trace of what occurred. Even the conversation about it may be deleted forever. This comment, like everything else on this page, does not cite sources. This comment may also be in violation of some rule.

That's an interesting point. Several people are starting to look into issues with the deletion system already. Will you be helping out with that?   

> Hi Kim.  I don't know what ""looking into"" even means, in regards to Wikipedia. I don't know who people are, who does what, or who created the rules.  I don't know what ""helping out"" means, in regards to your question.

My first effort here, at creating an entry, was put up for deletion in 4 minutes, then deleted without discussion by some admin.  Now I can't find the brief discussion about that. 

But it led to the realization that many many pages here, the ones that state policy and rules for wikipedia, don't cite sources.  The pages don't list authors either.  They are nebulous pages, that don't follow the rules those pages insist I follow.

Interesting?  Damn right it is interesting.  I've read a lot of criticism of wiki, and defended wikipedia for years.  But now, well, I see a huge flaw in the system.
  

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The only links I saw in the article (the one on Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) seemed to work fine now. Were there other ones you were thinking of?   

I answered on your talk page.  

 Cornfused I tell you 
heh heh

 Is user:Nakon some kind of Bot? 

I have no idea what happens on Wikipedia sometimes.  While reading the ALS entry, due to a friend having been diagnosed with it, I followed a link to the ALS Association, which gave me that page that says there is no article.  I looked it up on Google, and created a short starter page on it.  

Right after I hit create, I realized there was already an entry, but it was under ALS Association, so I hit edit this page, to make it a redirect. It came up as deleted!  In a matter of seconds, some asswipe called Nakon had deleted the page.

(Deletion log); 03:28 . . [Nakon]  deleted ""The ALS Association"" (CSD A7 (Corp): Article about a company that doesn't assert significance)

Considering there already was a page, and it certainly is significant, the ultrafast deletion is an example of some kind of fucked up mentality.  This idiot has to be using some kind of software to scan every new article, and s/he must have spent 2 seconds before hitting some sort of deletion key.

Unbelievable.  This level of bullshit goes beyond anything I have ever encountered on the Internet before.  If I had changed the entry to a redirect, I would have missed the event.

I use Wikipedia all the time, but I spend almost no time editing or creating pages.  Most of the changes I have made over the years have been fixing minor mistakes or reverting vandalism.  Having managed to avoid ever being drawn into the