Posts Tagged ‘ wikipedia ’

Deletionpedia: Where Wikipedia entries go to die

Sep 18th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Technology

Deletionpedia is a site that catalogs everything that gets deleted from Wikipedia, from temporary deletions during clean-up to complete entries that are removed after a period of discussion. Some existed for years and had hundreds of edits, while others were vanity entries or obscure points of reference that had been barely touched.



Asylum-Seeker Rejected Based On Wikipedia, Appeals Court Reverts

Sep 4th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Offbeat

That judicial statement of the obvious from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals, which said the Department of Homeland Security committed no big foul in using a site editable by anyone with a computer to decide the fate of a woman named Lamilem Badasa.