Rootschat At Wikipedia

[newbie]

I knew someone knowledgeable would sort it out!

lets all vote   
Newbie

[RJ_Paton]

Enochlau appears to be a "Sysop" (ie a Moderator) but I've been through his logs and there is no indication of a deletion for a Rootschat entry.
However if you search Wikipedia for Rootschat you find a link to the homepage listed under genealogy

Volunteerism

Volunteer efforts figure prominently in genealogy. These efforts range from the extremely informal to the highly organized.

On the informal side are the many popular and useful message boards and mailing lists regarding particular surnames, regions, and other topics that are maintained on the internet to facilitate queries and responses. RootsWeb.com, and RootsChat.com for example, have hundreds of them. A mailing list subscriber can send a request for help by e-mail to the list address, the mail is immediately distributed to all the subscribers, and anyone who can help will e-mail a reply to the list. On the message boards, this exchange occurs entirely online. Not only can one get an answer very quickly, merely following the conversations is very educational too. These resources are used by experienced and inexperienced researchers alike.

[newbie]

Falkryn,
I used the link given , wikipedia then says it can't find rootschat, and to look for it in the deletion log, (which is a link)
and I found the deletion there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&page=Rootschat
Newbie

[Christopher]

Hiya Falkryn,

I am lost I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Enochlau and discovered Enoch Lau is an Administrator on the English Wikipedia. Is Enoch a "Sysop" (ie a Moderator) as well as an Administrator

Chris

[Christopher]

I knew someone knowledgeable would sort it out!

lets all vote   
Newbie

Where are we voting W________ are getting plenty of mention on this board now. I spotted a genealogy section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy
Could we not put Rootschat there I hope I am allowed to refer to W________ as W________

Chris

[newbie]

Hi Christopher

There seems to be a voting process by which the fate of entries is decided, but I failed to find one in this case.

the above was from Arranroots posting I thought we could all get to vote to put Rootschat back on. I think in the deletion log I looked at there was a case of Enochlau putting a site back on , but I'm not sure.
Newbie

[RJ_Paton]

Is Enoch a "Sysop" (ie a Moderator) as well as an Administrator

It would appear that on that particular site Sysop,Moderator and Administrator are combined in the one role.

re Enochlau's deletion of Rootschat ..... he does not appear to give any reason in the user talk section .... possibly because no one has asked .... and there does not appear to be any reason given elsewhere.
Although I have not seen the original article I cannot believe that an article about Rootschat and its community would contravene any of the criteria given for an article to be deleted.

[bonjedward]

I tried searching for 'rootschat' in http://Wikipedia.org , the online encyclopaedia that is written entirely by volunteers.

There's no rootschat entry yet - how about it? Anyone can create an entry, or modify one, but ideally an entry should be written by someone who knows a lot about it - Trystan, perhaps? Details of when it was started, by whom, rootschat's objectives, usage statistics, etc.

It is an encyclopaedia, stating that "Wikipedia has a neutral point of view, which means we strive for articles that advocate no single point of view." i.e. it has to be purely factual, not praising rootschat, for example. Also, statements like 'the most widely used discussion group' would have to be backed up with a reference.

I find Wikipedia to be an incredibly useful and reliable source of information, at work and for my private interests. I try also to contribute articles, or improvements of articles, whenever I have a few minutes.


Moderator Comment: topics merged

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi David,

there was an article about RootsChat in Wikipedia a while ago, but it then got deleted.

Don't know why, but .... if we do another one, we'll need to find out why that happened first, or we could get deleted again.

Bob

Update
I've merged this with the original discussion about the deletion.