Comments on: ‘Office robbery statistics’ Wikipedia entry

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Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:18:19 +0000

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By: Where is your attention focused? | Taylor Davidson

Where is your attention focused? | Taylor Davidson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:11:42 +0000

[...] A good summary of the back-story on the Wikipedia back-and-forth over “office robbery [...]

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:08:53 +0000

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…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:32 +0000

OMG! They renamed the section to “Office theft statistics”. WTF! These guys are so petty.

By: Jendrik

Jendrik — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:11:47 +0000

Hehe, great job! ,)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:57:19 +0000

@Nate: At least we're not the only ones who thinks this is crazy

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:26:58 +0000

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!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:58:03 +0000

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?

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:19:50 +0000

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..

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:50:57 +0000

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.