My Wikipedia Entry

Last night I created a very new Wikipedia entry for Cosmic Cantina. Check it out at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Cantina

First I had an entry up about the Belmont Apartments, where I live here in Durham. I described the the apartments and facilities, the address, and other random facts. It stayed up for about five minutes! Someone deleted it because of its lack of significance in an encyclopedia. It was really disappointing to see it go away, because I felt very attached to my new creation and addition to this gargantuac folksonomic site.

I spent a little more time on my Cosmic Cantina entry, even using code to put the "history" title in and the "references." it looks pretty legit if I don't say so myself.

This exercise was pretty hard because everything I wanted to post was already up there, and I couldn't think of anything to add. Its amazing how many people edit and look at pages every second.

I didn't have any struggles about putting myself out there in this way, or on the validity of my post. Anything that a user puts up as a joke or as false information seems to be immediately deleted. In this way, there does seem to be some control on the validity of wikipedia posts.