Chess.com Wikipedia page

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Avatar of ChessGuevara234

I reckon a chess.com Wikipedia page would be a good idea. That way, more people might hear of the site. Also, considering that my home village (pop. 2000) has a page, chess.com (pop 400 000+) probably should as well.

Avatar of TheMoonwalker

It should not be too hard to write an article ;)

Avatar of erik

agreed. but i can't create it :D someone else should!

Avatar of Sojkicz

I can make the czech one, but my english isn't good enough to write something to wiki

Avatar of Grakovsky

If someone gives me the English article I could type it up in Russian. Erik, you can contact me if needed! Laughing

Avatar of romphill

If everyone would be interested in sending me emails or private messages containing information and relevant dates (such as founding, live chess, etc), I would be more than happy to put something together in English.  Once that's done, Erik could look over it for vernacular and what not.

Avatar of erik

i can't be involved in the process.

also, make sure you look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess.com

somebody tried to add this page before and it was deleted. apparently it was not "significant" or something. what is weird is that many other smaller websites have references. oh well :)

Avatar of MathBandit

According to Wikipedia, when I looked a little into why it was deleted, I was redirected to a page that explained that "Wikipedia articles should not exist only to describe the nature, appearance or services a website offers, but should describe the site in an encyclopedic manner, offering detail on a website's achievements, impact or historical significance, which can be significantly more up-to-date than most reference sources since we can incorporate new developments and facts as they are made known. See current events for examples."

Avatar of erik

http://www.chess.com/news_/search.html?keyword=building

that describes everything :D

Avatar of MathBandit

If nothing is done in the next few days, I can write one up.  Anyone who's willing to read it over, in that case?

Avatar of D_Blackwell

Self promotion is not the point of Wikipedia, though some do abuse it that way.  What's the point anyway?  Google - chess - and chess.com is #1 in the SERPS.  I see no point or added value from a Wikipedia page pimping the site.

Avatar of MathBandit

Pimping the site is not the intention, or at least not what I think the intention is.  My thought was a place to document the history of the site, and hopefully a little about how it helped internet chess reach a new level.

Avatar of ChessGuevara234
D_Blackwell wrote:

Self promotion is not the point of Wikipedia, though some do abuse it that way.  What's the point anyway?  Google - chess - and chess.com is #1 in the SERPS.  I see no point or added value from a Wikipedia page pimping the site.


Oh no, 'pimping' was not what I intended, although I admit it could be construed as such. My main point was really that an organisation as large within the chess community as this site probably merits an entry. :)

Avatar of donngerard

yeh i think i could help in my place.... :)

Avatar of city-kids3

I am currently working on one!

Avatar of ChessMastora

I have createdb the page people, go on Wikipedia and see for yourself, sorry it's not that great but at least it is something, wikipedia accepted it! Plz make modifications wherever necessay and add new sections. This will be the start of making chess.com dominent over the chess community. Also, plzcreate links wherever possible on other wikipedia pages. Sorry if you diagree with me on some parts, i have to make the article look neutral

Avatar of waffllemaster

Member Since: Feb 22, 2013

You're so clever.  No really.

Avatar of kco

Who were you talking too wafflle ? Laughing

next time quote his quote. Wink

Avatar of waffllemaster

Oh, he was deleted quickly it seems :)

Avatar of AlCzervik

A commonality with these threads seems to be:

Parham + wiki + c.c = deleted account.