Mysterious disappearance from Wikipedia?
In 1985, Nintendo put demonstration kiosks called the "M82" (who knows why?) in stores looking to sell the system and its games. Similar in concept to a Play-Choice 10, it had twelve slots one could elect from and a knob in back to change the maximum play duration. Working units are rare and sell for thousands of dollars.
Search for the thing on English Wikipedia? Get nothing, zilch.
On French Wikipedia? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_M82
On Finnish Wikipedia? https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_M82
In places that have obviously taken text, links, and all from English Wikipedia? https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2728052 (and others).
But currently, English Wikipedia knows absolutely nothing of it, and that's throwing me for a loop. How does that even happen?
re: Mysterious disappearance from Wikipedia?
@porsupah Ah, the wikignomes got to it! I forgot to do a deeper search in the less stylish namespaces.
Still, do delete an article like that without putting the information elsewhere? It just seems petty, and doesn't really serve anyone. I wonder if I should try to get mention of it in somewhere else, or just leave well enough alone because I don't know all the arcane mysterious ways of the wikignomes.
Mysterious disappearance from Wikipedia?
@ElectricKeet Behold, the name of your nemesis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete&user=&page=Nintendo_M82&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=