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Sorry, what? I made the comment above precisely to highlight the fact that the proposal was made by me, some random person, and it can easily be disputed by you, some random person, because everyone can (and should!) edit Wikipedia.

Your sarcasm is really quite hurtful.

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Not sure how GP is sarcasm. People use the Wikipedia rules all the time to suppress newcomers and keep them, get them sanctioned, and keep them from becoming better editors.

The idea of Wikipedia is to allow anyone to write articles. But in practice a newcomer has to have a lot of grit to keep content on the site because of the social structures that effectively make certain topics off-limits to newcomers. I like Wikipedia a lot but I have better things to do with my life than go to ArbCom when someone is effectively claiming ownership of a page.

I'm curious why you went for speedy deletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion

OK. Zero interest in arguing about inclusionism for the hundredth time so I'll take your word for it that you mean well and I wish you good luck.

Changing subjects:

How does one change the username their HN posts are made by, after the fact ? That's a neat trick ...

That is an awesome trick, please let us know how! The account was created hours after the comments, and the comments no longer appear in the original commenter history.

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