Wiki wacky

I once yelped that Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that any fool can edit and many fools (like me) do edit, doesn’t seem to like game shows. Several game-show-related articles have gone bye-bye for little or no reason, as a thread on the GSN General board notes. Some of my whines on the issue...

Other poster: I've thought about vandalizing GSN's wiki page.

Don't bother. Vandalism is cleaned up almost at once, often by bots. You'll also get banned in a hurry, and the checkusers [Wikipedia editors with sneaky tracking software] will nail you again if you post under another name.

Another poster: [Classic game show guru] Steve Beverly's Wikipedia page was probably deleted at his own free will.

No. The article was "prodded" by an admin named Riana, based on alleged lack of notability. This means somebody hung a notice on the article that deletion was impending. Nobody argued with the notice within seven days, so Riana gave the article the heave-ho. It sure wasn't cut at Beverly's request. Wikipedia almost never dumps an article just because the subject of the article requests it.

By the way, [game show pundit] Matt Ottinger's article got wiped on the second AfD (article for deletion process, which is more formal than "prodding"). The reason was again the alleged lack of notability. I fought the good fight but lost. The first AfD was a no-consensus. I managed to fight that one off but lost the second time around.

Yet another poster: GSN's 50 Greatest also had a page that was deleted too.

The AfD got a delete vote from an editor named Calton. He seems to have it in for game shows. The article was very good by Wikipedia's mostly bad standards. The Internet Archive holds a copy of the article, which I've downloaded.