User:Sj/Archive

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Wikipedia should avoid breaking links wherever possible. However, its community of alternate inclusionists and deletionists like to use the delete links quite a bit. Some interesting pages, collections, and fora are from time to time deleted, moved and deleted, transwikied to other sites that then disappear from the 'net, and otherwise hidden (often unintentionally).

This is a collection of things that have at some point been on Wikipedia, at some point been deleted or threatened with deletion, which I would like to preserve a link to. If you feel compelled by virtuous zeal to delete anything linked below, please let me know.

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[edit] Fun

[edit] Games

At some point, Wikipedians played games on-wiki. Some delightful templates were designed for chess and go games. I think this is a fabulous idea; as of late 2006 it was out of vogue.

The chess championship, featuring many WP heroes, was the culmination of WikiChess. Almost made it trhough a double-elimination 16-entry tournament before interest waned.

[edit] Design awards

[edit] Pages with long histories

Some pages, despite hundreds or thousands of edits, get deleted in the end... official policy is that an article can be nommed for deletion quite often, and deleted over a 5-day period. So articles or topics opular in the past with people who do not visit regularly may be pruned. When I come across interesting articles that were so deleted in the end, I'll keep a list and history copy here, for nostalgia's sake.

  • /List of songs about masturbation -- one of those bizarre and bizarrely well-tended pages that occasionally flourish. Showed up on today's AfD; had 1440 edits when deleted.