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RE: Bringing Steem to everipedia.org
This annoys me. I've never gotten into Wikipedia article editing, but what gives someone the right to 'undo' changes? Do you have to be a 'VIP' user or something? Or claim some special knowledge on a topic? The user who is undoing these changes seems to be a film fanatic more than a crypto expert.
I knew someone who has a high standing on Wikipedia in general since he was there since the beginning, if that's the way to get the Steem changes through I might send him a message and see if he can update the Wiki for us.
There was a reason cited, mainly about notability. I didn't dig too deeply but maybe such things can be resolved or argued for on the discussion page
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Thanks! @lauch3d stated the more detailed reasons below, didn't sound like an unreasonable rejection which was what I was afraid of :-)
it was because of the self-referential use of sources. It can be fixed by using independent and steem-external sources. We only used steem - GitHub, steem.center, steemit, steem.com, whitepaper, blue-paper, larimer-articles ....this clearly introduces a bias. I wouldn't try to make them angry, Wikipedia is a use-full generator for traffic. The Steemit article went through because it contains critical sources. It was a mistake from us, not from them.
holger80 made an important step towards article-diversity, there are other important sites and wikis where it is easier.
Thanks for the clarification @lauch3d! I was afraid 'bias' was into play here since I've heard of Steemians trying to update the wiki before and it getting rejected for no apparent good reason. This sounds reasonable, and more importantly, fixable :-)