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Wikipedia Is What It Is…
Zen of Design — ... - where, I note, him and I used to get into some knockdown, dragout fights. I note its PLAYERS do - but people are predisposed to consider things they like noteworthy. But is his MUD particularly noteworthy? Beats me. I have no idea where the line is. They apparently consider every Alpha Flight villain and bad metal band I listened to in the 80s to be relevant enough, but not CarnageMUD. Go figure. So what to make of the Wikipedia kerfuffel that Raph, Scott and Richard have posted about? Bored to death, really. I mean, ...

The Threshold / Wikipedia story, 10 months later
Altitis — Wolfshead’s excellent blog (on which I can no longer comment because I’m sitting behind a proxy) took the opportunity of a sensationalist news report about Wikipedia losing contributors to revisit the Threshold fiasco, and it’s interesting to go back to what I wrote then, having followed this fascinating train wreck as it unfolded. For those unwilling to read up the entire background, in January, after a long edit war on the Wikipedia entry for Threshold, one of the more well-known MUDs ever produced, the article was proposed for deletion for lack of notability. Followed two bitter weeks of ...