tubechallenge.com

I just found this page on wikipedia about the tube challenge. What do you think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Challenge

Hmmm... very interesting, what's with the 274 stations from Jan 2007?
Has Guinness finally seen sense?

hmmm, it's told more like a story than an encyclopedia article in most places. could do with a clean up, and a spell-check... and the section on alternative challenges could be a lot longer.

and yeah, 274 stations now? never heard of anything like this...

Leave it to Waveform to update it.

I'm sure he'll do it justice.

The reason it doesn't sound too much like an encyclopedia article is that it's been largely copied and pasted from the writeup on this site. Hmm. I hope Neil's given his permission...


Hang on, are we allowed to say ******** again? Ah no, that's just Nutteronabus being cunning. Waveförm waveförm waveförm.

I agree with you that the page looks like a huge story. I read it a few times and because I thought it was familliar, looked on this site and indeed whoever did it just copied and pasted the words.

It does need improving in some places. It sounds like a child wrote it! The grammer is appaling!

Very interesting indeed the author is up to speed on the most recent record attempts so it's make me think they either belong to or visit the forum

The rules appear to be an exact copy/paste of what Guinness provide when you lodge a GWR request....

Not sure where they are getting the 274 info from though

garion24wales wrote:I just found this page on wikipedia about the tube challenge. What do you think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Challenge

Oh, you found it, eh?

Here's a screenshot of the history page ...

I believe an explanation of posts 1 and 6 on this topic should be forthcoming then

Post six is most intriguing ...

pwned.

so explain 274 stations to us?

Well, it probably won't make me any friends, but I've just put the page up for deletion. The large-scale copying-and-pasting is against Wikipedia policy, and evidently nobody here (including people who may or may not have contributed to it...) is particularly attached to the article right now.

Personally I'm not sure that the Tube Challenge is really notable enough to become a proper Wikipedia article, but either way, I don't think we'd get there by having Neil's distinctly non-encyclopedia-ish text there (even if he does give permission)...

The whole area of internet copyright is a grey area.

I haven't checked the text myself, but if it's all been lifted from the website I'd prefer it if it were either changed or removed.

C&P is very lazy.

What's wrong with posts 1 and 6? Just because I found it doesnt mean I made that article. I was looking on wikipedia for information about the London Underground because I'm doing a presentation on it in my Communications class. And anyway, I dont have time to do things like that. I have three A-Level exams this week so (no offence to you all) the Tube Challenge is the last thing on my mind.
Also, I NEVER use the username 'garionallen24'. I believe a username shouldnt include personal names. I did have that username on a few sites, but since last summer, due to many intrusion attempts on my email address and Bebo sites, I have used a different username. So unless someone logged in on those old accounts, or created another account, it wasnt me.

Like I said, I have three exams this week and I'm not going to waste my time on trivial matters. If I do fail, what do I say? Sorry, I was creating pages on some site? They would just walk away.

So 1) I did not do it,
2) I dont want to do it (I dont have time)
3) I hate being blamed ( no need to be sarcastic Neil!)
4) I never use that username anymore. Thank my 'friends' for that!

garion24wales wrote:What's wrong with posts 1 and 6? Just because I found it doesnt mean I made that article. I was looking on wikipedia for information about the London Underground because I'm doing a presentation on it in my Communications class. And anyway, I dont have time to do things like that. I have three A-Level exams this week so (no offence to you all) the Tube Challenge is the last thing on my mind.
Also, I NEVER use the username 'garionallen24'. I believe a username shouldnt include personal names. I did have that username on a few sites, but since last summer, due to many intrusion attempts on my email address and Bebo sites, I have used a different username. So unless someone logged in on those old accounts, or created another account, it wasnt me.

Like I said, I have three exams this week and I'm not going to waste my time on trivial matters. If I do fail, what do I say? Sorry, I was creating pages on some site? They would just walk away.

So 1) I did not do it,
2) I dont want to do it (I dont have time)
3) I hate being blamed ( no need to be sarcastic Neil!)
4) I never use that username anymore. Thank my 'friends' for that!

Strop!!!!

Your other username isn't waveförm is it?