Barrapunto or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Wikipedia

Barrapunto is a Spanish-language Slashdot lookalike, and a literal translation of "slash dot". While doing some research on Gnupedia to try to fix up its inaccurate Wikipedia article, I learned that Gnupedia was first announced on Barrapunto. So that led me to trying to figure out what Barrapunto was. Getting information on Barrapunto in English proved to be a bit tricky, and the best I could easily find was a Google translation of the Spanish Wikipedia article. From that I discovered what I considered to be the most important information:

Barrapunto is a Spanish-language Slashdot-like website. The name is derived in the same manner as Slashdot, with the spanish "http://" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra" and http://barrapunto.com" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra-barra-punto-punto-com". Barrapunto runs Slash, the open source software used by Slashdot, and materials are published under CC-BY.

I went to create an article for Barrapunto on Wikipedia, but discovered one had already been deleted by Guy Chapman. I went to DRV, and learned that you were supposed to ask the deleter to undelete before listing on DRV, so that's what I did. Guy refused to undelete, but suggested I should recreate the article, which is what I did. Then my recreation was speedied.

It's currently on DRV, and who knows what these idiots are going to do with it from here. I've done some further research, and apparently there are more people who search for Barrapunto than Wikinews, apparently Barrapunto used to be ranked number 86 in the Spanish Alexa, and apparently Barrapunto produces its own Slashdot Effect, Efecto Barrapunto. I've mentioned it all on DRV, most likely in futility, though.

Yes, the proper response would be to "swear by Zeus to make no further edits to Wikipedia, other than those which give me artistic pleasure and/or please my ego in creating something which pleases me by its very existence, for its own sake" and to "not attempt to change Wikipedia policy by arguments on Wikipedia". Sometimes I forget just how screwed up Wikipedia policies are, though. There's gotta be someone sane there, doesn't there?

UPDATE: Fortunately, sanity seems to have prevailed, and the article has been undeleted. Of course, I can't help but wonder whether or not the undeletion will be overturned due to my violation of [[WP:CANVASS]]. And apparently the version which Mr. Chapman deleted and refused to undelete had been around over two years and undergone 17 changes before his destruction.