the encyclopedia that anyone can edit on the condition that said person meets the requirements laid out in Wikipedia Code 234.56, subsections A34-A58, A65, B7 (codicil 5674), and follows the procedures specified in Wikipedia Statutes 31 - 1007 as well as Secret Wikipedia Scroll SC72 (Wikipedia Decoder Ring required)."

2007-10-10:

There's a war going on behind the pages of Wikipedia. Submission of new articles is slowing to a trickle where in previous years it was flood, and the discussion pages are increasingly filled with arguments and cryptic references to policy documents. The rise of the deletionists is threatening the hitherto peaceful growth of the world's most popular information source.

the philosophical split of our times, deletionists vs inclusionists

2026-10-10: Synthetic Attribution Drift

An investigation into "Jagged_85", a pseudonymous Wikipedia editor who systematically inserted thousands of fabricated historical attributions across encyclopedia entries over 5 years. By exploiting Wikipedia's assumption of good faith and the structural asymmetry between asserting an unsourced claim and auditing obscure primary citations, the fraudulent attributions persisted for over 10 years, contaminating downstream textbooks, museum exhibits, and academic literature. cremieux.xyz