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You can be the one to create the kbin page on wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by density@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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Secure a place in history. Create the source material for hundreds of journalists, bloggers and shitposters writing about the downfall of reddit and the rise of the threadiverse. (also missing!)

At some point, there will be some sort of drama involving kbin. It could be constructive drama or not; who knows.

When it happens, whatever it is, lots of people will direct themselves to wikipedia to learn about what this website is. We all know wikipedia can be very influential. Even in the absence of drama.

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And also bear in mind that if someone writes a crappy enough kbin article now and it gets deleted, that's going to make it harder to get a kbin article started again in the future. I know that's not how it's supposed to work in principle but unfortunately it's how it works in practice.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Pleroma still doesn't have a wikipedia article because of this, despite being one of the oldest AP-enabled fediverse services. It's been deleted twice because some moderator didn't like the quality or number of sources.

[–] density@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@FaceDeer oh that's interesting. do you know why?

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia doesn’t like articles that are basically ads. Articles should be written from an unbiased standpoint using independent sources. If an article has been removed because it’s basically self promotion, then mods will be more careful about reopening it again.