My Wikipedia Adventure

There’s an article on Wikipedia for ‘Frankenstein in Popular Culture’ that lists novels related to Frankenstein. I thought Monster should be included, so I used AI to figure out how to go about requesting that, and it turns out you need to make a COI (Conflict of Interest) Request on the talk page for the article. I did this, which triggered a long debate where at one point I was asked to write what the entry would look like. I did this, stating that I used Peter Ackroyd’s entry for The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein as a template, and this triggered one of the Wikipedia editors shooting me down, stating that Ackroyd is noteworthy because he’s a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Ackroyd’s book is a good one, and I’m not a Commander of anything in the British Empire, but Monster is every bit a worthy to be included in the list as Ackroyd’s novel and got at least an equal amount of critical acclaim. In anyways, being kind about it, this pissed me off. Fortunately, one of the editors suggested I should try to get an article about Monster approved by Wikipedia’s approval board, and if that happens, then Monster would be added. I didn’t really care about the article, but out of spite, I agreed to try this and wrote a draft article, which led me down a rabbit hole of editors pointing me to different articles about how to write a Wikipedia article and all the arcane tags that are needed, as well as suggestions (mostly, a helpful and good group of people.) And guess what? The article has been approved and is now live and Monster has been added to the list of Frankenstein books.

Anyway, I feel like I’ve taken a crash course in Wikipedia article writing!