[EM] "wrong way elections"

[Warren Smith]

My article on wikipedia by that title has now been deleted.


I still do not understand what the complaints were about the article.
Supposedly it had a "point of view" although nobody was able to figure
out what it was, and/or it was "original research" although
nobody was able to figure out what that was either.


The complaint was started by some anonymous person calling her or himself "opabinia regalis".


Anyway.  If anybody thinks they understand what wikipedia's problem is,
they can try to write an article themselves about wrong-way elections.
I looked around wikipedia for over an hour after the deletion came to my notice
(well, they never notified me)   trying to figure out why it happened, or what
to do, or the answers to a bunch of other questions, but was unable to figure it out.



The article was based around the large table at the CRV I mentioned earlier,
http://www.rangevoting.org/FunnyElections.html
containing a large number of wrong-way elections thru history.
I thought this was a worthwhile contribution to wikipedia,
but some felt it was "inherently" unsuited for some reason, and
if I made a claim this subject was important, that proved my "arrogance."


I guess I'd have to say this strikes me as evidence that Wikipedia is unsuited
to having stuff abotu voting systems.  I mean, it was clear that none of the people
at wikipedia, who came in a sudden swarm, knew anythign whatever about voting systems.
But they still knew it had to be deleted and it was unimportant.


I will, however, be happy to
include my wrong way elections article in the EM electowiki thing, provided anybody
is able to figure out how to get the article from wikipedia (where is apparently
no longer exists) and put it there.

Warren D Smith
I am assuming some of you know the answer to these questions a heck of a lot
better than I do.   When I saw these complaints about my article, I figured they
were ludicrous on the face of it and hence would never be taken seriously, but evidently
I was wrong in that estimation.