Frank Arrigo, Wikipedia

After more discussion than content, Wikipedia has sadly removed the Frank Arrigo entry created by delic8genius, and edited (badly) by my good self.

Objective lessons learnt:

• social media is not a free-for-all
• online communities have rules
• wikipedia does openly publish their rules. These rules and style guide are long. 
• newbies are left to freely create their own entries
• strong editorial process quickly clamps down on new entries, especially from newbies
• wikipedia’s editors have strong rules, all published, and are followed
• biographies detailing living people are very carefully vetted
• if you are a blogger and work for a large company, you probably “haven’t done anything of note for the world“
• people’s definition of anything of note differs.

I can now clearly see where a couple of strategies undertaken by fans-of-frank may have come unstuck – albeit with good intent.

It would be interesting to watch wikipedia to see if these rules are evenly applied.