{"id":354,"date":"2008-06-21T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2008\/06\/21\/blog-135-sos-danny-a-wikipedia-tale\/"},"modified":"2009-11-10T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T01:25:29","slug":"blog-135-sos-danny-a-wikipedia-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2008\/06\/21\/blog-135-sos-danny-a-wikipedia-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 135 > SOS Danny &#8211; A Wikipedia Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/detail\/mac\/eng\/image\/4177\/SOS+Danny+-+A+Wikipedia+Tale.html?DCTag=xjaymanx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2008\/xjaymanx_wikipedia_tale_450.jpg\" alt=\"SOS Danny - A Wikipedia Tale\" \/><br \/>\n<em>SOS Danny &#8211; A Wikipedia Tale | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For the humble readers of <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/?DCTag=xjaymanx\">DannyChoo.com<\/a>, I&#8217;ve got a short-lived (March 2nd to April 9th) tale which I&#8217;d forgotten to tell till now&#8230; Several months back on March 2nd, I was writing a blog entry quoting Danny, and wanted to reference him without citing his blog. Instinctively, I searched Wikipedia. But nothing. No Danny Choo. So what did I do? I decided to create an entry for him.<\/p>\n<p>From that point on, 95% of the credit goes to *<a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:DOSGuy\">DOSGuy<\/a>* (thanx dude!) for developing the Danny Choo article to its fullest. However, despite attempts to reinforce the entry over its <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=User:DOSGuy\/Danny_Choo&#038;action=history\">several-week history<\/a>, the article was <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_talk:Xjaymanx\">speedily deleted<\/a> on April 9th for failing to meet the guidelines of &#8220;notability&#8221;. Which, I admit, is understandable. Self-advertised popularity doesn&#8217;t necessarily equal encyclopedic noteworthiness (and vice-versa).<\/p>\n<p>Luckily and incredibly, *DOSGuy* saved a copy of the article and still hosts it under his <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:DOSGuy\/Danny_Choo\">user page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So months later, the question remains: Do we have anything to add to the article that might make it good enough (notable enough) for resubmission? Should we care about Wikipedia or &#8220;notability&#8221;? After all, if indeed we have something, we can still edit it. In other words, S.O.S. = Save Our Stormtrooper Danny. ^_^;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Thanx *<a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/home\/eng\/chun\/?DCTag=xjaymanx\">Chun<\/a>*, I hope I can borrow your &#8220;seal of shock&#8221;. ^_^;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOS Danny &#8211; A Wikipedia Tale | Click to enlarge For the humble readers of DannyChoo.com, I&#8217;ve got a short-lived (March 2nd to April 9th) tale which I&#8217;d forgotten to tell till now&#8230; Several months back on March 2nd, I was writing a blog entry quoting Danny, and wanted to reference him without citing his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2008\/06\/21\/blog-135-sos-danny-a-wikipedia-tale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,62,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danny-choo","category-experiments","category-mirai-suenaga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}