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A more extreme example is the Amanda Knox article on Wikipedia. For years it was kept deleted by a cabal of British English speaking administrators and editors (Knox's murdered roommate was British). A deletion review finally overturned the deletion a couple weeks after Knox's conviction was overturned.

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/03/amanda_kn...



I didn't know about the Wikipedia issues around that tragedy, but found it interesting from a sociological standpoint. So I tried looking for similar cases of the line between fact & opinion blurring on battleground Wikipedia, and found this, in case anyone else is interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

(And it's on Wikipedia itself, natch.)




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