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PCPRO magazine: "For an example of the dark side running out of control, though, check out Misplaced Pages…In the NYRB article Baker explains how Misplaced Pages continually struggles to repel vandalisation...but as a result is now ruled by bands of vigilantes who delete all new material without mercy or insight. This is such a strong claim that it needed checking, so I decided to attempt an edit myself…I wrote a roughly 100-word potted history of … within five minutes I received a message to the effect that this entry has no content…and has been put up for "express deletion…It seems Misplaced Pages has completed the journey by arriving at an online equivalent of the midnight door-knock and the book bonfire" More: ]
PCPRO magazine: "For an example of the dark side running out of control, though, check out Misplaced Pages…In the NYRB article Baker explains how Misplaced Pages continually struggles to repel vandalisation...but as a result is now ruled by bands of vigilantes who delete all new material without mercy or insight…It seems Misplaced Pages has completed the journey by arriving at an online equivalent of the midnight door-knock and the book bonfire" More: ]
PCPRO magazine: "For an example of the dark side running out of control, though, check out Misplaced Pages…In the NYRB article Baker explains how Misplaced Pages continually struggles to repel vandalisation...but as a result is now ruled by bands of vigilantes who delete all new material without mercy or insight…It seems Misplaced Pages has completed the journey by arriving at an online equivalent of the midnight door-knock and the book bonfire" More: Misplaced Pages:Notability/RFC:Reevaluation#Journalists