Request: Maxcoderz @ Wiki

Post by **kv83** » Thu 02 Feb, 2006 10:31 pm

I would like to request a wiki-page about Maxcoderz. Why I don't write one myself? Well:

Wikipedia surveys existing human knowledge; it is not a place to publish new work. Do not write articles that present your own original theories, opinions, or insights, even if you can support them by reference to accepted work.

Or in other words; it would be nice if a "outsider" would write about us

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Thu 02 Feb, 2006 10:46 pm

It would probably either be speedy deleted or AfD'd. In fact, I'd agree with them on that: I don't think MaxCoderz is important enough in the grand scheme of things to be in an encyclopedia (that and I'm not so happy with how they run things anymore).

I won't go out of my way to make an article for you, but on the same token I won't do anything to try to stop someone else (inc. AfD'ing it).

Post by **kv83** » Thu 02 Feb, 2006 10:51 pm

AndySoft wrote:It would probably either be speedy deleted or AfD'd. In fact, I'd agree with them on that: I don't think MaxCoderz is important enough in the grand scheme of things to be in an encyclopedia (that and I'm not so happy with how they run things anymore).

I won't go out of my way to make an article for you, but on the same token I won't do anything to try to stop someone else (inc. AfD'ing it).

Well, I got the idea after seeing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_ti

It doesn't seem as if they were deleting that so I guess we deserve a site aswell

p.s.: What's AfD'ing?

Btw; Why do we have WikiTI, if it only wants to document the bcalls and other hardware stuff... Imho WikiTI would be the perfect place to gather information of other things like projects, games, programming groups, people etc, etc, etc.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Thu 02 Feb, 2006 11:11 pm

Wow, that article is pretty large. *shrug* That was just my initial thought... I guess well developed articles on every major group would be nice, but I must cite precedence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... TICalc.org (you may have to manually scroll to the proper section) was a vote to delete. I feel if you wish MaxCoderz to have a Wikipedia entry, you should nominate ticalc.org's article for undeletion, which I would wholly support.

As for WikiTI, it was indeed originally for programming reference only. It currently still is, though I don't really see a reason why adding anything else should be frowned upon at this point in time. Yeah, we'd like to flesh out some more progamming information, but whatever.

AfD == Articles for Deletion

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 11:17 am

Cemetech used to be on Wikipedia too, but it didn't show up in a search... Guess it was deleted.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 12:16 pm

Cemetech was indeed deleted, beause it sure sounded like Kerm wrote it himself.

GuillaumeH · Post by **GuillaumeH** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 1:13 pm

After reading the title, I thought the point of this thread was to propose a wiki for maxcoderz

I don't know if it's really useful to create one page per programming group, maybe a big page named "TI programming commmunity" would be less cluttered and easier to read.

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 2:13 pm

AndySoft wrote:Cemetech was indeed deleted, beause it sure sounded like Kerm wrote it himself.

Yes, that was my first impression too when I read it. Kinda annoyed me at the time, I remember I edited the page about the Ti-83 series to order all the links under "External links" in the current cathegories, and put Cemetech under "Programming groups" instead of "See also" or something

Oh, and I think I added the WikiTi at that time.

KermMartian · Post by **KermMartian** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 6:14 pm

Yeah, I originally wrote it, then a couple of people did edits to make it more objective, and then it got deleted.

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Sat 04 Feb, 2006 12:41 am

If I remember correctly, it was deleted because of "blatant self promotion", their words, not mine. *nudge*

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 04 Feb, 2006 2:27 pm

yeah they wont allow self promotion i think, its more a documentation website, not a advertising website

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Sat 04 Feb, 2006 8:54 pm

*looks at kermmartian and kv83*

It'd be easy to write one if there was more information about MC available

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 04 Feb, 2006 9:13 pm

Rezek wrote:*looks at kermmartian and kv83*

It'd be easy to write one if there was more information about MC available

and a front page

KermMartian · Post by **KermMartian** » Sat 04 Feb, 2006 10:17 pm

I'd be happy to write it with some others, as long as we could get some reciperocation going...

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 04 Feb, 2006 11:50 pm

Maybe an article describing the TI community, with links to the biggest programming teams/forums and archives websites