On Friday the 21st of November the Wikipedia community deleted their entry which explained what a Lightworker was.
Why?
Wikipedia members can nominate articles for deletion by giving a reason and starting a discussion. The debate on the future of Lightworker began on October the 11th when Wikipedia user Stiffle criticised the article for not citing any reliable sources. A second user agreed and added that the lightworker concept was not notable.
Finally, on October the 12th the Wikipedia user Cirt cast the third vote. Cirt noted that a lightworker was a “non-notable New Age concept” and that Google searches on the term resulted only in “nonreliable webpages and Wikipedia as the third result”.
There were no other votes or comments in the debate and so on the 21st of November Jac16888 deleted the article.
It is important to stress that many members of the Wikipedia community spend an awful lot of their own personal time, without pay, working hard to ensure that the site is as good as it can be. A review of Jac16888’s talk page shows that he regularly makes deletions when he believes an article is not notable enough and will discuss and debate the appropriateness of this with the community.
Cirt was thanked by another user for being a champion of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous but has made numerous edits elsewhere too.
So, can lightworker be added again to Wikipedia?
In theory, it is possible to re-add lightworker to Wikipedia. Rather than starting the page again, Wikipedia prefers users to start a discussion as to whether the page should be re-added. The process is described in the what you can do about it section of the help files.
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What do you think? Can any article on Lightworking be ‘notable’ enough and referenced from enough authoritative third party sources to satisfy wikipedia?
Update: Jac16888 has left us a nice comment to thank us for the non-hostile write-up and point out that it was Cirt who deleted the page first. Jac16888 deleted a re-post of the page which shouldn’t have been there.
Hello there
I am Jac16888, and basically, I just want to say thank you. So many times I've deleted an article and somebody took it badly, I have been insulted, attacked and threatened, both with violence and with legal action more times than I can count. The fact that you didn't do any of that means more to me than you can ever imagine. Thank you.
p.s. The article was actually deleted by Cirt the first time. What I deleted was a repost which just contained a website link
Hi there,
Thanks for the comment. I've updated the post a little to reflect that Cirt flagged the page in the first place.
I'm pleased that your pleased because I really did want to view all sides of the story – I had a bash at wikipedia editting, oh, um.. six or seven years ago (gosh; could it really be that long?) and work elsewhere on the internet lets me know just how challenging the community aspect can be. I also know how emotional people can be over their favourite wikipedia page!
Maybe we could get you back to do a guest "how to" post or "things to think about" post for anyone thinking of starting a new age wikipedia entry. It's a tricky subject to tackle; I mean… I think we may struggle to find hard facts to cite for an entry on tarot cards or runes but yet both seem noteworthy enough for an entry.
i believe the page was the truth without even having seen it. i would love to be able to look at it as im finding all google searches about it to bring up some stuff about it that i know isent the truth. is there anyway i would be able to see the page still ?
Interesting – what is notable?
On Wikipedia, notability determines whether a topic merits its own article. Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable; if no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, then it should not have a separate article. Wikipedia's concept of notability applies this basic standard to avoid indiscriminate inclusion of topics. Article topics must be notable, or "worthy of notice." Determining notability does not necessarily depend on things like fame, importance, or popularity—although those may enhance the acceptability of a subject that meets the guidelines
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so, I am interested in knowing what a light worker IS, where can I go? if just for a short descriptive term?
What about Urban Dictionary: Lightworker.
Lightworker one who in the dark is the light . One who believe in mind body and soul healing and psyhic abilities i am a light worker i have proof please contact me