If you haven’t heard of it before, the Wikipedia is a free, open content encyclopaedia which allows any entry to be edited by its user base. While this means that it can take advantage of the wide range of knowledge that the sites users can bring, it also leaves it open to abuse, such as has happened in the case of the entry for Brian Flemming’s The God Who Wasn’t there.

In this case, someone has tried to delete the entry for this film - as well as the one for the Atheists of Silicon Valley, which suggests that the user in question has an axe to grind, rather than a genuine objection to the accuracy of the articles in question.

However, marking something for deletion doesn’t automatically delete it. Instead, the request goes up for a vote.

At present, there are 13 votes - unanimously in favour of keeping the article - but I’m still going to suggest that you might want to head over and add your voice to prevent this sort of underhanded censorship attempt from gaining ground.

(via Brian Flemming)

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