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Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't ne... by curtisblaine on Saturday January 17, 2026 @06:52PM (#46663371)
> 1984 describes

1984 describes the practice of retroactively editing publication to erase facts from history.

Wikipedia is retroactively scrubbing not only articles but also their discussion and their editing history to erase facts that are thought to be inconvenient.

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Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't ne... by komali2 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @09:37PM (#46664332)
Feels reducto ad absurdum. Every encyclopedia does this when it turns a person with fifty biographies about them into a one page encyclopedia entry.
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