Old Man Murray Wiki Article Deleted... Internet Objects.

[Born2bwire]

So the Old Man Murray Wikipedia article was deleted for lack of notability. You guys have already probably read about this since there was an outpouring of dissent on websites like Kotaku, Joystiq, Slashdot, RPS, etc. When Rock, Paper, Shotgun heard about it they e-mailed a large list of notable figures in the industry to get their endorsements of OMM's impact so that the article would not be deleted.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/04/the-remarkable-notability-of-old-man-murray/

It's a great read and reminded me of how utterly awesome that site was. The Deus Ex walkthrough is classic, not to mention their innovative review system Start to Crate. http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/84.html http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html

Anybody else here passed as many hours on OMM as I have? If anyone isn't familiar with the site, the one of the authors was a writer for Psychonauts, Portal and Portal 2.

 

[Pia]

So the Old Man Murray Wikipedia article was deleted for lack of notability

Correction: deleted because the wiki admin doing the deleting organized a sustained campaign to get everything about the OMM guys deleted that he possibly can. Apparently the OMM people insulted him ten years back.

 

[Cogman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Old_Man_Murray_(2nd_nomination)

The guy doing the deletion is a scum bag with a conflict of interest. Several notable sources were out there yet he still pushed forward with "thats not good enough!".

 

[Maximilian]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Old_Man_Murray_(2nd_nomination)

The guy doing the deletion is a scum bag with a conflict of interest. Several notable sources were out there yet he still pushed forward with "thats not good enough!".

The man himself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SchuminWeb

 

[Anubis]

who is OMM ive never heard of this before

 

[Dorkenstein]

There's too much petty campaigning like this on the intertubes.

 

[simonizor]

who is OMM ive never heard of this before

Read the wikipedia article.. lol

 

[erikistired]

The man himself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SchuminWeb

wow, just wow. reading his responses on the OMM afd page are just...comical. or they would be if he wasn't trying to erase a part of internet history. i wouldn't mind see anonymous get a hold of that dude.

 

[BoberFett]

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that a Wikipedia admin is a fat ugly dude wearing a tie dyed shirt and flip flops and carrying a purse.

 

[Barfo]

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that a Wikipedia admin is a fat ugly dude wearing a tie dyed shirt and flip flops and carrying a purse.

Heh, first thing that crossed my mind when I saw that pic was: "basement dweller!"

 

[Tom]

why is he in front of the Iwo memorial looking like a Vegas tourist ?

 

[Pia]

It appears to me Wikipedia has basically no safeguard at all against one or two neckbeard losers removing content due to their grudges/disorders. At the very least, deletion of an article for notability (read: subjective) reasons should take several admins to do, the same people should not be able to nominate it for deletion again if the deletion is denied the first time, and repeated, obvious conflict of interest edits should lead to warning/ban for the admin.

 

[ivan2]

imagine what 4chan can do to this guy.

 

[Born2bwire]

Correction: deleted because the wiki admin doing the deleting organized a sustained campaign to get everything about the OMM guys deleted that he possibly can. Apparently the OMM people insulted him ten years back.

Well, yeah I know. I was more interested in digging through the OMM archives than bothering about some mouth breather.