After it was mentioned on ‘The Office’ tonight, I thought I’d check out if there actually was a Wikiedia entry on ‘Office robbery statistics’. Well, great minds think alike 
Someone has already started a stub but it was already marked for “speedy deletion”.
Emma and I added a bunch of sections to it to try to make it legit. Checkout the screenshots of what we had done so far below. But out of no where, despite being marked contested, it was deleted by Rockpocket for having “No meaningful, substantive content”. I’m no expert on adding new entries to Wikipedia, but it’s crazy to me that someone can’t have 15 minutes to build up an entry before it’s deleted.
Luckily, others have taken up the mantle of adding our stupid little entry back to Wikipedia. Information is meant to be free! 
(via videogum who has heard our plea)
UPDATE: The system works! The ‘Office Robbery Statistics’ entry has just been undeleted! I can go to sleep now
UPDATE #2: The entry was just deleted again. Is this how it always is trying to add something to Wikipedia? I’m going to sleep either way, but I hope others take-up the cause overnight
UPDATE #3: We still haven’t been able to get the ‘Office robbery statistics’ entry back, but Nate was able to get an ‘Office robbery’ entry going that hasn’t been questioned yet. w00t!
UPDATE #4: ‘Office robbery’ has now been deleted for being “vandalism”. Now Nate (comments below) has added a section called “Office robbery statistics” to the ‘Office’ entry. It contains real information so we’ll see how long that lasts
UPDATE #5: The ‘Office robbery statistics’ section in the ‘Office’ entry has now been renamed ‘Office theft statistics’. Are these Wikipedia dicks really that petty?!
Tags: the office, wikipedia
Hello, the article got deleted again, but I was helping you do this! I added the notable incidents and some other stuff.
Anyways, the new article is just “Office robbery”
It’s more general, and I actually made it into a semi-legitimate article.
The Wikipedia editors are a bunch of jerks. You should see the stuff they let slide – non-conforming to a set layout, blatant errors etc etc, but then they take anything they’re not personally interested in out.
I once tried updating the Burton entry because the people they had listed for their team were wrong and they were so picky about it even though it was linked directly to the Burton team sites.. they wanted a magazine article as if Burton would lie and put non-team members on their page..
Thanks, Nate! I added an update above.
Will they ever allow a more specific ‘office robbery statistics’ entry once the ‘office robbery’ entry is established?
Well, now they’ve removed “Office robbery” as well. That just seems unnecessary. I even left a note on the talk page telling them to incorporate it into the “robbery” article if they deleted it (the robbery article is terrible right now), because “Office robbery” had a lot of real information on it! But they still just deleted it, saying it was vandalism, claiming it had no real information!
So now, I’ve added a minimal section called “Office robbery statistics” to the “office” article. We’ll see how long that lasts.
I don’t like how the Wikipedia admins just delete stuff they don’t think is “notable” or claim is “vandalism.” Just because a page like this was inspired by The Office, doesn’t mean it isn’t interesting or even useful for someone.
Oh well…. Wikipedia has gone from being an unreliable site when it started because anyone could change it, to an unreliable site now because it’s almost impossible to add to it!
@Nate: At least we’re not the only ones who thinks this is crazy
Hehe, great job! ,)
OMG! They renamed the section to “Office theft statistics”. WTF! These guys are so petty.
I was also disappointed to not see the entry, and even more disappointed to see the continued delete / undelete machinations. What a waste of an opportunity for some meta-fun…
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