Examples of censorship of Wikipedia revs

[ericbarbour]

I start with an item I discovered recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history

Note that every edit between 2007 and 2016 is GONE. For no clear reason. I smell WP:NLT.....
It is IMPOSSIBLE for a Wikipedia article to sit there unedited for nine years. Believe me.
The talkpage's history was also purged in 2016.

It must have something to do with this user. All of whose edits have disappeared.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sargon_of_Akkad

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God that's stupid. Anyone care to explain this?

There's a Dramatica article about him, of course!
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Sargon_of_Akkad
He's got a "rationalist" blog. That hasn't been updated since April 2017. How about that, a "rationalist" who can't stop whining about Anita Sarkeesian. All that GG crap just makes my eyes roll back in my head now.
https://therationalists.org/

[badmachine]

I start with an item I discovered recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history

Note that every edit between 2007 and 2016 is GONE. For no clear reason. I smell WP:NLT.....
It is IMPOSSIBLE for a Wikipedia article to sit there unedited for nine years. Believe me.
The talkpage's history was also purged in 2016.

I'm not seeing what you're seeing. This title started life as a redirect, and those can sit around unedited for nine years. I'm not seeing anything purged from the talkpage for that title though.

[ericbarbour]

Knowing how the Wikiwanks can rename and move articles repeatedly for stupid/no reasons, you may be right. But we will probably never know what actually happened.

[badmachine]

Knowing how the Wikiwanks can rename and move articles repeatedly for stupid/no reasons, you may be right. But we will probably never know what actually happened.

If you want a great example of revision deletion just look through the history of Fuzzy Zoeller and its talk page. He sued the Foundation in the mid 2000s apparently but nothing came of it.

[ericbarbour]

If you want a great example of revision deletion just look through the history of Fuzzy Zoeller and its talk page. He sued the Foundation in the mid 2000s apparently but nothing came of it.

They revdel things there because it's a target for stupid vandalism, like a lot of sports figures. But there's no "management" of the process that I can find.

This is the official rev-del page, with the "official policies" for its use. Most of the time it is used for legitimate reasons, and sometimes it's misused for petty crap like silencing Wikipedia critics on Jimbotalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... n_deletion

The community's decision[when?] was that RevisionDelete should not be used without prior clear consensus for "ordinary" incivility, attacks, or claims of editorial misconduct. The wider community may need to fully review these at the time and in future, even if offensive.

LOL yeah, suuuuure......