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Non-free files in your user space

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Some baklava for you!

You owe the world. Donate a-eon x1000 Amiga computers through google and android exprtise. Make this a reality. Robin N Paterson (talk) 21:01, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

You owe the world your knowledge. An a-eon x1000 Amiga computers offer availability. I owe wiki gratitude and ongoing belief in good faith an order. Robin N Paterson (talk) 21:17, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Articles for Deletion: Space Empire Elite

Hello, Orion Blastar. You noted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Space Empire Elite, "Most of the independent sources on it are from BBS Systems and Boardwatch Magazine which went out of business when the Internet took over BBSes."

Boardwatch Magazine would be an appropriate source to contribute to establishing notability. I'm not familiar with BBS Systems, but if that is the name of an independent publication then its coverage would also be appropriate. Sources do not need to be accessible from the world wide web, though this is a common misconception among editors. If you have access to magazine back issues, or at least citations of such publications, please add that information to the article. Note that Mark Wolf's Before the Crash does make a passing mention of the game as an early BBS door game. If enough mentions and descriptions can be put together to comprise "significant coverage" (as defined here), then the game is presumed notable and I will happily withdraw the nomination. Happy editing, Cnilep (talk) 02:02, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

I have cited magazines and books before, only to have my edits reverted. It seems only Internet web sites count these days, and people watch articles like a hawk and revert any citations I do of books and magazines. I am fed up with Wikipedia because of that. For example I cited a source of "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric S. Raymond for the OS/2 and Amiga articles and his chapter on the GUI. I was told he was non-notable and his book was unreliable, even if it did cite newspaper articles and the like. You see all this pre-Internet tech isn't covered on web sites anymore, and you have to dig deep into magazines and books, and even then they revert my edits because magazines and books are not reliable enough. I've been through that before with Wikipedia and I am not going through it again. No offense intended, but I don't consider your offer sincere, and feel like you are just trolling me, because I know any book or magazine I cite will be claimed as "non-notable", "not independent" or some other excuse like it has in the past even if it was none of those things. You seem to have a history of that looking at your past edits, and the fact that Boardwatch is an independent source, but you don't seem to understand that it is one. I gave my old collection of Boardwatch magazines to a local computer museum a friend of mine runs with some Commodore 64 and Amiga magazines and books. Which is a shame because I got a lot of information on past technology that I could contribute to Wikipedia, but I am pushed away by editors and administrators to refuse to accept books, magazines, newspapers as citations. Orion Blastar (talk) 02:28, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Well looks like it got deleted, your political agenda succeeded, I guess they liked your Beer Hall Putsch? Some congratulations are in order for you, yet another pre-Internet article bites the dust. Wikipedia has a cancer, a cancer that deletes information faster than we can verify and review it. Ignorance comes to Wikipedia because pre-Internet tech doesn't have web sites about it anymore, and it is non-notable because books and magazine references don't count anymore, and while it is a common misconception that they aren't reliable it is a common popular opinion that they are not notable or reliable as Internet web sites are. Thus Wikipedia is no longer an encyclopedia anymore, as it just deletes 'cruft' because it is old. But it still lives here as many contributors to BBS articles have left Wikipedia for other Wikis, because there is a big political movement at Wikipedia to delete all pre-Internet articles. I hope you enjoy your Pyrrhic victory. Orion Blastar (talk)

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