BetterMost, Wyoming & Brokeback Mountain Forum
Our BetterMost Community => Chez Tremblay => Topic started by: sparkle_motion on April 07, 2006, 12:06:36 am
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Everyone knows Wikipedia, right? Brokeback has a pretty extensive write up. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokeback_Mountain
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Yep.....I've contributed to that MANY times.....the whole article about the Variety Ad......mine! LOL Well....most of it at least...
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Way to go, Chris. Awesome! Maybe you can add www.bettermost.net to the discussion forum section? I don't know how to add any information on the pages.
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Way to go, Chris. Awesome! Maybe you can add www.bettermost.net to the discussion forum section? I don't know how to add any information on the pages.
Done!
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Cool. I always use wikipedia, EVERYTHING's on there.
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Me too....I also wrote the entry on the DVD, the very first paragraph about the Oscar upset and part of the Larry Miller article....
The film led the nominations with eight categories at the 78th Academy Awards and was widely seen as a frontrunner for Best Picture [1], but was ultimately upset by Crash. The film did, however, win three Oscars, including Best Director.
All me.....LOL
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Chris, you are even cooler than I knew. I PM'ed Phillip so he would be sure to see this. Thanks!!
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Well I tried....but the whole Discussion Forums section of the article was deleted by the mods......they said that 'Wikipedia isn't a link repository'
Bastards....sorry guys I tried and it was on there for a sec...
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WHAT THE CRAP? It was on there earlier and it had 3 links and there is actually an external link catergory!
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WHAT THE CRAP? It was on there earlier and it had 3 links and there is actually an external link catergory!
Yep......the mods deleted the whole section....if you got up and look in the history you'll see.......'Wikipedia isn't a link repository'.....
Ridiculous! Sorry I tried.....you win some you lose some I guess....
You saw it on there for a second didn't you?
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Can you try to add it to the external links section?
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Done.....lets see if that works!
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Nope they deleted that too! Damnit! >:( :-[
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Hunh? What's goin on?
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Hunh? What's goin on?
The Wikipedia mods keep deleting the link to BetterMost everytime I post it......bastards!
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rofl, now the trolls are taking over wikipedia!
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LOL.....seems that way!
They're just strict on what you put on their site...
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Here is the history of my battles with the Wikipedia people. Anyone can edit anything that is placed there. There are a few editors there that are hellbent on their way or the highway, and I've had on-again, off-again luck keeping BetterMost listed there. Sometimes you get the argument it's not a link depository, but there are links there, other times they claim they don't want "commercial sites," (as if this thing is earning big $$$ and Dave Cullen's forum doesn't have ads too).
I have found the only way to stay listed is to out-persist them. The brokebackmountain2005 guy got listed because he wrote a program that automatically reinserted his site back into the list everytime someone tried to delete it (up to three times a day - after that they can lock you out for a day for an "edit war.") Because he was relentless, they left him in (unless someone just deleted all the discussion forums again). I stayed listed there for about a month until someone decided the three sites that appeared first (I added myself in at #4 I think because I wasn't going to presume to put myself on top of the existing sites) was good enough and deleted everyone elses. Attempts to re-add myself are, as you guys have discovered, purged.
I really have mixed feelings about the entire Wikipedia project. It is ripe for takeover by editor zealots who assume there way is the only way, and although people can edit their edits, they can try and lock people out or just make a bigger effort to stick around and control things than the average Joe trying to add something.
I don't really have the time personally to battle with these people, although I could join an effort of up to three insertions a day. If lots and lots of people did that, I suspect it would stay up there despite whining from the self-appointed "editors." Remember, no one controls or is a ruler of the Wikipedia, no matter what they imply.