We're Wiki Worthy!Back in the day, the U.S. Postal Service had standards. You had to be not only important, but dead to make it on a stamp. (Number one selling stamp of all time? Elvis.)
New issues were the subject of great speculation and debate. Bribes offered to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee! Nothing uglier than a bunch of philatelists threatening to glue the Postmaster General to an oversized envelope…
Now, it’s as easy as paying $17.95 for twenty stamps and you can have postage featuring any picture you care to upload. Hmm.. is this an automated program or is there some arbiter of good taste weeding out the pornographic stuff? Only one way to find out…
How will this change the face of the next stamp collecting convention?
Nerd #1: I’ve got a great Bobby Joe Muskegan, age 2. Cutest thing you ever saw, his gramma Lacy only did a print run of 60 for Christmas 06 and I’ve got a block of four...
Nerd #2: (with pretension) Sorry, I only collect government-issued stamps.
Another stupid revenue-producing plan allows stamp nuts the chance to purchase postage that has left the atmosphere.
Richard Kapp, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., who recently paid $280 to have UP
Aerospace carry four stamps on its next launch, hopes the suborbital trip will
add value to his stamp collection."It's a hobby--flying stamps--though at some
point it could be a commercial venture," said Kapp, an aerospace engineer.
Oh, wow, that is so worth paying extra. Especially considering there is no way to prove a particular item has ever been in orbit.
Wikipedia on the other hand, has standards. From the Chicago Tribune:
Casual readers might assume that Wikipedia's goal is a complete account of
all earthly knowledge, but the site maintains a rather elaborate set of criteria
for admission. The several thousand unpaid volunteers who write and edit
Wikipedia spend a lot of energy ensuring that people, bands, companies and
everything else meet what it calls "notability guidelines."Let's sum it up this way: Not everyone is Wiki-worthy.In fact, Wikipedia jettisons more than 100 entries each day, many of them from people who posted autobiographies after registering on the site. (Writing your own entry, as we will see, is "strongly discouraged.") The list of nominated rejects is posted each day on a page titled "articles for deletion," and because all of Wikipedia is transparent and public,
anyone can watch the editors' votes roll in, and witness those ultimately deemed
non-notable get cyber-gonged off the stage. Type "wikipedia deletion log" into
Google for a peek at the latest.
What becomes of these booted entries? Might I suggest starting my own website where (for a low, low fee) the losers are posted?
The Not Ready For WikiTime Posters?
Deletiipedia?
Recycle-pedia?
Paymepedia?
I think this has potential, people!
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