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Tenuously related: Wikipedia articles referencing less than desirable historical figures (e.g. Nazis) are reportedly being deleted en masse.

• prox 5y ago
  Citation needed?
  • carabiner 5y ago
    https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/ https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-na... There have been a lot of WW2 fanboys who have been writing fawning articles about nazis who won a medal or two and were secretly, actually anti-Hitler the whole time. The reality, as far as documented, is that most of these were run of the mill soldiers without any known tendencies to be treasonous in wartime. She's been finding most of the heroics to be bullshit, and the real soldiers to be nobodies, and hence having the articles deleted per WP non-notable policy.
    • prox 5y ago
      Great article and insightful on how WP works.