The only thing wrong with Wikipedia February 1, 2009
Posted by Zack in Missouri , trackbackis that there are hyperactive wikipedians who delete articles because their subjects aren’t ‘notable’ enough.
I was just looking for info on the New Earth Coffee house, which closed before we moved to Kansas City. Every now and then I hear about it. But there’s no info anywhere on its story. There was a wikipedia article once, but wikipedian ‘HappyMe22‘ deleted it. And he’s a Christian — a Presbyterian even! Now, what is a nice Presbyterian doing going around deleting other people’s articles?
UPDATE: Found this one article…
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New Earth was awesome. Then the space became some other venue, and then it became Main Street Cafe, which moved to Wyandotte, and is cool but not as cool as New Earth ever was. Even if it’s just the role of New Earth in history of the band Waterdeep, I’d call it significant. HappyMe22 dont’ know nothin’.
New Earth was the place I found out cool people could love Jesus. When I was in middle school I saw a punk-rock show with MxPx and it blew the shelter right off of my Baptist brain. Sheldon (the ex-hippie pastor who used to run it) was by far the most interesting part of the experience. He was a true innovative leader.
I published an “underground” Christian ‘zine back in the day called Kamikaze, and I used to ship copies of it down to the New Earth to get distributed. I never made it there, but I remember hearing all the great things about it — including the Waterdeep connection.
What’s amazing (and equally sad) is that a lot of the Jesus People era (1970s) Christian coffeeshops disappeared too without very little history to remember them by.
Anyway, thanks for the “blast from the past” with this post, Zack.
I’m disappointed that it’s possible to just totally erase a wikipedia article, without there even being a copy in the history section.