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Before I left back in 2010 to explore the world, I was able to get Mary-Anne a page setup on Wikipedia.
This took close to 12 months to achieve as they have a pretty harsh vetting team and I had to demonstrate proof of her being. This was fairly easy as at the time plenty of news articles and things were floating about.
However, Recently I noticed on Wikipedia that someone had marked her page for deletion. This was the reason
Fellow Wikipedia Contributors fought back and disagreed with this person,
user1) We have no such notability guideline, but she is a madam, operating large and notable brothels with the tacit approval of the local governments. She has been covered extensively in reliable sources including the New York Times as well as many in Australia. She's notable
user2) There are no special notability requirements for madams, but that only means that she has to meet the requirements of WP:GNG. She does
user3) there seems to be enough coverage in reliable sources.
user4) there's no shortage of sources (she's had local/national/international media attention) so there's plenty of material to work from. Shouldn't take too much work to overcome the COI influence, and the article is not too bad as it stands currently.
So The Wikipedia Gods Ruled Mary-anne's Page could stay !
With this being said, We don't want the same thing to happen again and we want to Keep Mary-annes slice of history alive. This is where I need help from all of you.
Wikipedia is a USER contributed site. I need the members to help in sourcing the web/forum or even asking Mary-anne questions in this Thread to help get our Page Out of the archives and shown to the world.... I'm sure Mary-anne might even put a prize up for the best contribution to the page.
There is a lot to talk about. I'm limited as to what I can post, due to their "Conflict of Interest Policy" - Our members however, are NOT!
So, Help us out and lets see how we go with the page. =)
This took close to 12 months to achieve as they have a pretty harsh vetting team and I had to demonstrate proof of her being. This was fairly easy as at the time plenty of news articles and things were floating about.
However, Recently I noticed on Wikipedia that someone had marked her page for deletion. This was the reason
Fellow Wikipedia Contributors fought back and disagreed with this person,
user1) We have no such notability guideline, but she is a madam, operating large and notable brothels with the tacit approval of the local governments. She has been covered extensively in reliable sources including the New York Times as well as many in Australia. She's notable
user2) There are no special notability requirements for madams, but that only means that she has to meet the requirements of WP:GNG. She does
user3) there seems to be enough coverage in reliable sources.
user4) there's no shortage of sources (she's had local/national/international media attention) so there's plenty of material to work from. Shouldn't take too much work to overcome the COI influence, and the article is not too bad as it stands currently.
So The Wikipedia Gods Ruled Mary-anne's Page could stay !
With this being said, We don't want the same thing to happen again and we want to Keep Mary-annes slice of history alive. This is where I need help from all of you.
Wikipedia is a USER contributed site. I need the members to help in sourcing the web/forum or even asking Mary-anne questions in this Thread to help get our Page Out of the archives and shown to the world.... I'm sure Mary-anne might even put a prize up for the best contribution to the page.
There is a lot to talk about. I'm limited as to what I can post, due to their "Conflict of Interest Policy" - Our members however, are NOT!
So, Help us out and lets see how we go with the page. =)
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