The Tragedy of Having a Wikipedia Page—and Then Losing It

Backchannel Latest · Duncan Fyfe · last updated October 26, 2026 – 2:10 AM

Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not “notable” enough. How do these poor souls take the news?

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