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| ⚫ | <noinclude>The '''news''' section of the village pump was used for news or updates that were expected to require public discussion, rather than, say, specific actions, or discussion on their own talk pages. It has been deprecated since 2007. | ||
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| == A Misplaced Pages Page has been greenlit on ] == | |||
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| Watch the ] page, the thing has just been greenlit on ], so you'll get an influx of people there. I'd watch it for a few days if I were you. Someone is bound to upload a Fark cliche onto the page. Also, this is my first post on Village pump news, is it the correct place to post this? - ] 00:15, 21 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :Thanks for the heads up. This is a fine place to post this, although mentioning it on ] might also be worthwhile(although some people might say you should wait till there's been some vandalism before listing it there). I've put it on my watchlist, even though this is a few days later... ] 08:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Pages for deletion== | |||
| Where was the announcement made that a major page like ] was going to be moved to ]? Where was the announcement made that there was going to be a vote to do this? ] 21:28, August 26, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :I found it at ] ] ] 21:43, 26 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ::D*mn, thanks, Steve, how did I miss that? :( ] 22:00, August 26, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Portal Namespace == | |||
| The Portal: and Portal_talk: namespaces have been created, as per ]. – ]'']]''] 02:19, 27 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Recent media article on Misplaced Pages problems== | |||
| Dunno if this has been posted yet, there's an on some mainstream Australian news sites that goes over some recent problems on Misplaced Pages that most of us probably already know. One interesting excerpt: | |||
| :''One anonymous reader contacted Boingboing telling them he worked at a marketing company that uses Misplaced Pages for its online marketing strategies. | |||
| :''"That includes planting of viral information in entries, modification of entries to point to new promotional sites or 'leaks' embedded in entries to test diffusion of information. Misplaced Pages is just a more transparent version of Myspace as far as some companies are concerned. We love it. | |||
| :''"On the other side, I love it from an academia/sociological standpoint and I don't have a problem with it used as a viral marketing tool. After all, marketing is a form of information, with just a different end point in mind (consuming rather than learning)." | |||
| :''But as Jardin says: "I imagine quite a few Misplaced Pages users would beg to differ." | |||
| Gee... ya think? Is there any way of identifying the aforementioned companies that engage in such activity and doing something about them? -] 10:47, 28 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| Urgh. That's just real classy. Frankly, when people describe what they do as 'online marketing', I notice that I become extra leery with them. In my experience online marketing too often just boils down to the manufacture of differing variants of spam.--] 04:27, 29 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :: I don't see "viral marketing" as any different than a very large percentage of what comes into Misplaced Pages. Probably 10-20% of all edits are either deliberate POV-pushing, efforts to publicize something, etc. The fact that someone is being paid for it really doesn't change the equation much. For some examples: | |||
| ::# Wikispam links tend to be out of here pretty fast, unless people decide the link is actually useful in the particular article (in which case who really cares if wikispam is how it got there)? | |||
| ::# Semi-vanity articles about TV shows, bands, etc., tend to be deleted pretty soon if the topic in question is actually non-notable; if it is notable, well, of course this isn't the ideal way for an article to start, but it's probably the way a lot of them start -- again, the only difference is that instead of the lead singer's boyfriend, or some such, it came from a paid marketing agency. | |||
| ::# Tourist brochure-style writing about places tends to have a pretty short half life. | |||
| ::''"That all this good of evil shall produce/and evil turn to good; more wonderful/than that by which creation first brough forth/Light out of darkness!"'' -- ] | ] 17:17, August 29, 2005 (UTC) | |||
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| To help to obtain consensus in an extensive discussion on renaming at ], ] (with a shortcut of ]) has been created. The purpose of the page is to hold the deletion discussions for pages in namespaces other than the main article namespace, that heretofore would have been taken to ] (e.g. project pages, user pages, portal pages, and so forth). The discussion area is ready to go live. The deletion discussions of non-main namespace pages that were currently open at WP:VFD have already been transcluded there. ] 01:43:10, 2005-08-29 (UTC) | |||
| ==Freethinkers Unite!== | |||
| If we join forces we might just be strong enough to resist the onslaught of Mr. Banno, Mr. Ladd, Mr. Rhobite and their cadre of ] currently controlling the content of ], ], ], ] and related articles by force of numbers. Use ] to call for help in opposing the bullying of the ] anywhere in Misplaced Pages.--] 18:05, 30 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :<s>I believe this is a violation of the arbitration committee injunction against Dot Six. Please see arbitration case if you would like to comment . --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 19:00, August 30, 2005 (UTC)</s> | |||
| Your personal beliefs (personal subjective convictions with no basis in fact) are irrevant. Why don't you try sticking to reporting facts supported by solid evidence, moron?--] 19:43, 30 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Licensing selector == | |||
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| ] has added a cool new feature to ]: When you ] a file, you now have the option to choose the license you want to use from a dropdown box. The licenses available can be edited at ], as a structured list which lists licenses in the form <code>template name|descriptive label</code>. Please help to complete this list to include the most important ].--]] 21:49, August 30, 2005 (UTC) | |||
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