Wikipedia Has Fitzmas But May Delete It

[orleans]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzmas

i don't know how to sign up on that site or who can sign up but people are posting if the site should keep Fitzmas.

i think they should.

anyone know how you get to "vote" on it?

[phusion]

1. It should stay

If anything, it's a great historical memento that should stay in the record. Look how the term has taken off -- 150k hits on google.

No worse than "flying spaghetti monster". :) No offense to you FSM believers.

[BattyDem]

2. I believe you have to register and be logged in to comment

It's free :-)

[madeline_con]

3. Just push "edit this page"...

and you can edit any of it.

I've done it before, in other subjects. :)

[BattyDem]

5. Ah ... no login required. I never realized that, LOL!

Thanks. :-)

[orleans]

9. yeah! i did it!

i posted on the page! horray! woopie!

and thanks for pointing out how to do it.

[chalky]

4. I was reading a post yesterday where the author was constantly having to

fight off sabateurs on that description. And they finally did a lockdown on the description to keep the freepers from defacing it.

Guess they've decided to try an new strategy in getting rid of it?

[madeline_con]

6. Can't you just email the "contact us" link on the left? n/t

[jim3775]

7. It's winning the deletion vote, it will stay. n/t

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

8. It definitely should stay.

I'm just amazed that a single post from one DU'er can have that much power. It really is amazing how much power we have.

[drfresh]

10. I hate the word Fitzmas

Its just stupid. Stop using it...please?

[orleans]

12. fitzmas! fitzmas! fitzmas!

(sorry--i couldn't resist)

(besides, i'll never think of the song "we wish you a merry..." the same way again)

((and it's not that i even use the word--i just keep hearing it))

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. I hate that song

and this year I may actuaally sing along

We wish yuo a merry fitzmans, we wish you a merry fitzmas, and a happy indictment too...

[drfresh]

15. Touche.. I challenge you to a duel my friend.

Zell Miller style! :P

[orleans]

17. (smile) n/t

[Leopolds Ghost]

16. You must Bring Us... An Indictment. If you do not, THEN we will say...

FITZ!

FITZ! FITZ! FITZ!

--The Knights Who Say Fitz

(Formerly the Knights who Say Fitzmas, formerly Neener-neener-Booiing!)

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. It should stay, it is histiorical now

in ways that our fellow DU'ers never expected it to become... like Easter Eggs

[Jim Lane]

14. Please DON'T comment on the Wikipedia page

The vote on the proposal to delete the "Fitzmas" article isn't like one of these brainless polls on AOL or MSNBC where they don't really care about the result and so they allow anyone to show up and vote. DUing this vote won't work. (Fortunately, freeping this vote won't work, either.)

After a week or so, votes and associated comments will be reviewed by an admin. Because the issue is whether the article conforms to Wikipedia standards, votes from new users, who have no experience with those standards, will be ignored. Some of the more crotchety established users might actually be influenced to vote the other way if they see a whole horde of people coming on just to vote for or against deletion.

One alternative being considered is to merge the information into the article on the Plame affair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair . If you want to do something useful, go to that article and see if any important information about the whole scandal is missing; if so, add it. You can also check it for RW editorializing that should be deleted or recast into neutral form.

The "Plame affair" article has already been heavily edited. You might do even better to pick another person or issue you know something about and edit that article, which is more likely to have room for improvement.

[ErisFiveFingers]

18. I already added my vote on the AfD page...

It looks like it'll wind up with a merge/redirect, unless the indictment day itself is something of a particular spectacle.

Oh, and yes, I'm something of a wikipedia oldbie, as I've been working on articles since 1/03, so my vote will count for something, I think. ;)