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A friend of mine once played an elaborate prank where I got a Wikipedia page. He made me a Faroese cricketer. It was pretty great, but eventually things spira

• viewer5 12y ago
  Any way to view what the article looked like before it was deleted?
  • tdees40 12y ago
    Sadly I think it's disappeared into the ether. I also tried to find the Faroe Islands News Service blog that my friend put together, but it seems to be dead as well.
    • glass- 12y ago
      Here's an image of the last revision before it was deleted: https://i.imgur.com/mlip1D9.png https://i.imgur.com/mlip1D9.png
  • throwaway344 12y ago
    Wikipedia has a policy against this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring_deleted_pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring... The wayback machine just captured it once, and that was after the deletion.
  • a3_nm 12y ago
    For old articles probably not, but now there is: http://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page http://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page
• hugozap 12y ago
  Sorry but that is not fun. We should have more respect towards volunteers time.
  • drzaiusapelord 12y ago
    I lot of these editors are jaded because they spend so much time dealing with "hilarious bro prannks." I don't envy them.
• thrownaway122 12y ago
  Ironically this sort of prank is probably worth an article on wikipedia...