Thread:BunsenH/@comment-25404524-20190420083905/@comment-24577221-20190421181216

Okay, I'll try to look at it in the next day or two. I'm not as alert for proof-reading as I would want to be; I'm getting over a nasty cold that I got from one of my colleagues at work. (Thanks, dude.)

As for "Wiki Pirates", I'm sorry; I should have given more context. Tom is one of the best-known and highest-regarded people in the filk community. He has been given some of the top awards in the genre, and has been a guest of honour at many conventions. But a number of times, "high-ranking" W'pedia editors have deleted the page about him. "I never heard of him." Well, no, if you have no contact with the filk community, you probably wouldn't. There's lots of stuff in W'pedia that I have never heard of. But he's one of the top people in filk. "Well, filk isn't important." It's been a significant aspect of science fiction fandom for decades. "You haven't established that it's significant enough to be worth keeping in W'pedia." And so on.

And of course he's not "allowed" to argue on behalf of his own article. He's had to rely on other people to do that. This nonsense was part of what inspired him to write that song... that, and "Talk Like A Pirate Day". He has written several other "Talk Like A Pirate Day" songs. One is based on Hermione Granger (of Harry Potter) having her birthday on September 19th. Lyrics here, video here. There are more of his "pirate" songs linked to here.

As for those "important" editors, the phrase sometimes used is "Wiki weenies".