Talk:Rake Free

Many people will search for this term

And it is our job to delineate the difference between this concept and the other, more general concept of "rake". We would do the user a disservice by deleting this article.

Deletion and/or redirection

"Rake free" cardrooms are not a notable enough phenomenon to warrant an entire article, and the subject can easily be covered in the article about the Rake (poker). Also, the addition of specific rake free cardrooms online is inappropriate since it's just an attempt to drive traffic to those sites. (We could just as easily make a list of online casinos who offer signup bonuses in the online casino article, but that would clearly be inappropriate too since there are so many of them.) Rray 23:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The rake (poker) article covers this topic in a couple sentences, which is all this "article" was anyway. We don't make "anti" articles for every concept. No rake is just an aspect of rake, so this article is redirected, even though spammers have tried to establish it in the past to promote their companies. 2005 23:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This makes sense. I've redirected the other page. Rray 02:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article deserves its own section

There is a difference between "care" and "carefree". Same perception here. Biased individuals shall not silence the public from knowing the truth behind rake free cardrooms. This is not 1984. This concept deserves an explanation in its own right. Cloudreaver 02:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It has its own section in the rake article. Please stop making duplicate articles. Contribute valuable content to the rake article, if you have any. 2005 05:33, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cloudreaver, you might take a minute to review Wikipedia:Etiquette and also Wikipedia:No personal attacks. I've noticed that you've called User:2005 a "vandal" several times because he's edited something you've worked on here, and now you're accusing people you don't know of being biased. Calling people names because you disagree with edits they've made doesn't accomplish anything, and it's not realy welcome behavior around here. Rray 14:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And what we're doing is not censorship, despite your repeated usage of the word. If we wanted to censor, we'd blank the article as well as the mention of rake-free poker rooms from the parent article as well.

Censorship is the "prohibition or restriction" of information. What we're doing here is neither prohibition, nor restriction. We're just moving this small chunk of information into its parent article which will give it context; this is routinely done for articles in all subjects. We are not reducing the information, or hiding it. People searching for "Rake free" will still see the information in the parent article; that's the redirect doing its job. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 03:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]