Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Openness

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. - ulayiti (talk) 13:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] University of Openness and University of Openess

This afd nomination was incomplete. Listing now. No opinion. —Cryptic (talk) 14:44, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Appearance of Conflict of Interest?

There appears to be some good information ( for example: http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/HotTipsForEmailers ) and easy peer supported forking and linking redundant components of the campus to allow for rapid expansion as demand grows.

I am concerned that this request for deletion, although probably motivated by the stubbiness of the article or concern that this was a promotion entry, may be viewed by others as fear of competition and undue influence by the Wikimedia Foundation. Since this project appears to peer based (perhaps based upon mnet, gnunet, groksters et. al. and other emerging peer technologies) and encourages participants to set up and manage their own servers it has the potential to scale up rapidly once it hits critical mass.

Considering the methods whereby Wikipedia and Wikimedia starts as attempts to bolster a failing dot com and then work organized by the cabal off the mailing without participation at the meta site (which was being used to stall energetic newcomers with busy work .... or perhaps as a site to harvest others notes, homework or entrepreneurial efforts) I think we (Wikipedia) would be well advised to bend over backwards to avoid the appearance that we hampering or discouraging other volunteer/participatory sites prototyping other organizational and business models. We do not wish to present the misimpression that we view the planet as big enough for only one wiki and we intend to own/control that wiki/modern grid.

I vote NO. Do not delete competitions article. Rather I intend to embrace and expand the stub while I keep an eye on the site and explore its material, processes, licenses, etc. user:lazyquasar

• Request for information. lazyquasar, I wouldn't read too much into the nomination for deletion. I very much doubt the nominator was trying to suppress any competition - he probably thought the article was a hoax. So did I at first. However, I'm not sure now, and I seem to be going round in circles trying to establish whether it's a joke or not. Can anyone help on this? --A bit iffy 12:51, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. Not me. I do get the impression that this is real, but then there is this page[1] that is part of the Uo library[2]. - Dalbury (talk) 02:29, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

There seems to be no consensus, so I'm relisting this. -Greg Asche (talk) 22:43, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

• Weak delete. It's mostly a list of departments. Expand it into something more encyclopedic and I may change my vote. Durova 00:18, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Possibly hoax. Cannot find university address. --Vsion 10:27, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. After thinking about this, I've decided it is either an elaborate hoax, or fancy dress on some study and discussion groups, in either which case NN. - Dalbury (talk) 11:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.