Someone needs to fix this.

[40oz]

http://www.wikipedia.org/

40oz is not impressed.

EDIT: Yes I did check "More Anniverseries", words highlighted in purple for proof.

[GreyGhost]

This is an outrage - someone call the Internet Police.

[Bucket]

We used to be able to rely on Fredrik on this type of stuff.

[Gez]

<!--Please DO NOT add videogames, videogame consoles, concerts, movie, TV or album releases, as they WILL be deleted-->

[Ismaele]

Look here, in the Italian home page of Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principale under "Ricorrenze del giorno", the last mentioned event is: "First release of Doom"!

[DoOmEr4LiFe]

Gez said:

<!--Please DO NOT add videogames, videogame consoles, concerts, movie, TV or album releases, as they WILL be deleted-->

While generally I would agree with this because I don't need to see a lot of this stuff when I go to Wikipedia. Some things like Mario, Zelda, (and Doom, of course) should be given recognition and a freebie to bypass the rules.

[myk]

I love DOOM but I agree with that policy. All of the things mentioned there are far more important than DOOM being released. Especially Human Rights Day.

[Lorenzo]

Ismaele said:

Look here, in the Italian home page of Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principale under "Ricorrenze del giorno", the last mentioned event is: "First release of Doom"!

Here in Italy we are more advanced than the rest pf the world

[Graf Zahl]

en.wikipedia is nazi moderated. Nothing new there...

[Super Jamie]

Wikipedia becomes more and more irrelevant all the time. Fighting it is useless and just gets you banned. Who cares.

[40oz]

There was a celebration when doom was released wasn't it? I remember reading about the server host being down due to so much traffic or something.

[Gez]

As far as "rage against Wikipedia" goes, there are much more valid reasons than this one. Doom was groundbreaking at its time, but it has no historic value outside of the video game field: it's not "first computer game ever", or "first multiplayer game ever", and not even "first FPS ever"...

The other events that are listed there are the kind of things that would get on the frontpage of newspapers at the time (<insert disclaimer about newspapers in 1508 and 1520>). Doom... didn't. And wouldn't. Even today, video game release don't make it to the frontpage of generalist newspapers.

And why would video game deserve an exception when movies or novels don't? I don't think anybody here who thinks Doom should be mentioned would think the same about, say, the first publication date of À la recherche du temps perdu.

Wikipedia becomes more and more irrelevant? Maybe; but putting Doom's anniversary on its frontpage would increase this irrelevancy, not decrease it.

[myk]

I guess this is how the guys are venting their anger at the cacowards not appearing yet...

[eargosedown]

myk said:

I love DOOM but I agree with that policy. All of the things mentioned there are far more important than DOOM being released. Especially Human Rights Day.

Pfft, human rights. Doom is way more important in history =P