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Normal deletionists strip Wikipedia of joy. Malicious deletionists are a whole different world. I propose the following example of the latter. https://en.wikip
by WikiTossaway 5y ago
Normal deletionists strip Wikipedia of joy. Malicious deletionists are a whole different world. I propose the following example of the latter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/La_Voce_di_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
Free Flights to Italy was a minor political party in the 2018 Italian elections. The party was created by Giuseppe Macario.
Rolling Stone Italy published an article on Macario showing that many of his claims about himself were actually fabricated. This was picked up by other media outlets.
La Voce di New York published several not-so-positive articles on the guy at the time. The Points Guy published an article as well.
The account (Modulato) which proposed the deletion is Giuseppe Macario himself. He did the same thing on Italian Wikipedia. It is a strategic attempt to suppress negative stories about his past. You can see this behavior repeated in the history of rogeting article on English Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogeting&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogeting&action=h...
Several years ago, Macario ran an academic cheating service called CheatTurnitin. One of the techniques used to circumvent anti-plagiarism services, like Turnitin, is rogeting.
Macario published an article on LinkedIn. He integrated the article as a source for the rogeting article (IP 5.170.* edits). A short while later, he added his service's website to the article as well.
This service attracted a lot of negative reviews on sites like Ripoff Reports. Toward the end of 2017, he attempted to clean up his additions (Adrin10) to the rogeting article. These were reverted by other editors.
Last year, he tried to propose the rogeting article for quick deletion. This was reverted by another editor. And that's when the Modulato account came in and removed the material without being contested.
While this content shouldn't have been there to start with, it just shows an example of not all deletionists being equal. Some are far worse than others.