by Alec Muffett
Then the same muppet decided that maybe it was a “product” advertising page.
Hanging by a thread it was saved by User:Pnm and I have now fixed the article with numerous citations from Google Books and added a bunch of other citation-heavy stuff.
I’ve also added a synopsis of Randal’s tribulations. I wonder if there are any more good stories that are citable?
Still… gits – I have friends who are Wikipedians, but I wonder more and more what gets lost thusly.
I think the answer is that in most cases it isn’t anything personal, just articles lacking appropriate citations.
However I’ve seen useful, informative articles deleted or threatened because they are on topics that don’t attract the types of references that Wikipedia finds notable.
So whilst I think sometimes it is overdone, we have to judge the process by the results. In most cases someone who knows the topic checks the article, sees the flag, and goes and finds a suitable reference, which is the desirable outcome, and happened here as well.
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