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Wikipedia mods are eager to remove articles that they claim to be not significant so the least viewed article will probably change a lot

lessbergstein 3y ago
My article for Carrier_IQ was deleted as non-notable for obvious political reasons then recreated yaers later after the spin around the company had been settled. There may also be some intelligence community shenanigans. It's a great way to delete uncomfortable historic facts. Now it's just a funny little story about a rootkit with no specific political intrigue at all.
- lyu07282 3y ago
  not just that, just remember Donna Strickland they deleted her article because non-notable and then restored it after she won the Nobel Prize of physics... oops.
  - andrybak 3y ago
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- chimeracoder 3y ago
  > It's a great way to delete uncomfortable historic facts. Now it's just a funny little story about a rootkit with no specific political intrigue at all. That's not how I'd describe the page today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ
chadash 3y ago
Yes, but in my experience, this applies more to people than to some of the topics discussed in the article. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a city, town, village or hamlet in the US without a wikipedia page (as an example, take a look at Jack Wade, Alaska [1]), for example. And I don't imagine that rare moth species articles get taken down. But you have to have some kind of policy in place so that every individual on the planet doesn't have a wikipedia page. [1] On Google maps view, i can't maybe 8 houses there? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jack+Wade,+AK+99732/@64.1519419,-141.4630071,448a,35y,3.16t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x5149e998873be075:0x2f1a9ca47f03bf1b!8m2!3d64.1526072!4d-141.4604683!16s%2Fm%2F0480bm5?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jack+Wade,+AK+99732/@64.15.... But it's on wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wade,_Alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wade,_Alaska
- thepangolino 3y ago
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- bombcar 3y ago
  At some point a long time ago someone imported all the US Census data into Wikipedia, creating a page for every town reported. It strikes me strange that those are considered "notable enough" mainly because they've been in Wikipedia long enough, but new articles have to fight. Petty bureaucrats can only show their power by saying no, if they say yes it's as if they weren't there.
pertique 3y ago
The author actually brings this up in the article, and it seems that they are not likely to be deleted (baring vandalism due to their unique status being surfaced, I guess). Spoiler for the interested, and it could be an artifact of the dataset the author used, but one of the commonalities between the least viewed articles is that their subject matter falls into a category that isn't usually eligible for deletion under Wikipedia content guidelines.

lessbergstein 3y ago

My article for Carrier_IQ was deleted as non-notable for obvious political reasons then recreated yaers later after the spin around the company had been settled. There may also be some intelligence community shenanigans. It's a great way to delete uncomfortable historic facts. Now it's just a funny little story about a rootkit with no specific political intrigue at all.

lyu07282 3y ago
not just that, just remember Donna Strickland they deleted her article because non-notable and then restored it after she won the Nobel Prize of physics... oops.
- andrybak 3y ago
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chimeracoder 3y ago
> It's a great way to delete uncomfortable historic facts. Now it's just a funny little story about a rootkit with no specific political intrigue at all. That's not how I'd describe the page today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ

chadash 3y ago

Yes, but in my experience, this applies more to people than to some of the topics discussed in the article. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a city, town, village or hamlet in the US without a wikipedia page (as an example, take a look at Jack Wade, Alaska [1]), for example. And I don't imagine that rare moth species articles get taken down. But you have to have some kind of policy in place so that every individual on the planet doesn't have a wikipedia page. [1] On Google maps view, i can't maybe 8 houses there? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jack+Wade,+AK+99732/@64.1519419,-141.4630071,448a,35y,3.16t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x5149e998873be075:0x2f1a9ca47f03bf1b!8m2!3d64.1526072!4d-141.4604683!16s%2Fm%2F0480bm5?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jack+Wade,+AK+99732/@64.15.... But it's on wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wade,_Alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wade,_Alaska

thepangolino 3y ago
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bombcar 3y ago
At some point a long time ago someone imported all the US Census data into Wikipedia, creating a page for every town reported. It strikes me strange that those are considered "notable enough" mainly because they've been in Wikipedia long enough, but new articles have to fight. Petty bureaucrats can only show their power by saying no, if they say yes it's as if they weren't there.

pertique 3y ago

The author actually brings this up in the article, and it seems that they are not likely to be deleted (baring vandalism due to their unique status being surfaced, I guess). Spoiler for the interested, and it could be an artifact of the dataset the author used, but one of the commonalities between the least viewed articles is that their subject matter falls into a category that isn't usually eligible for deletion under Wikipedia content guidelines.