http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/08/14/wikipolitics-and-extinction/ Culturally Queer News and Views from Abigail Garner Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:31:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/08/14/wikipolitics-and-extinction/#comment-932 Tobi Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:18:29 +0000 http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/?p=398#comment-932 I think a lot of their arguments actually made sense, unfortunately. But that was about the article, not the term. Basically, words that are recently created -- even if widely used -- are considered suspect for wiki articles. If the article had been more about issues relating to queerspawn instead of documenting the growth of the word, it probably would have been accepted. I'm definitively thinking about re-creating it in that image, but I don't know the wiki policies about that. I think a lot of their arguments actually made sense, unfortunately. But that was about the article, not the term. Basically, words that are recently created — even if widely used — are considered suspect for wiki articles. If the article had been more about issues relating to queerspawn instead of documenting the growth of the word, it probably would have been accepted. I’m definitively thinking about re-creating it in that image, but I don’t know the wiki policies about that.

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