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Defenders of the article, heroes such as user ''Dolberty'' and ''Vyacheslav84'', provided dozens of sources from newspapers (''The Independent'', ''The Japan Times'', ''The Washington Post''), magazines (''Reader's Digest'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''The Week''), and books from publishers (Lonely Planet) around the world. Every single one of these sources were dismissed with ignorant comments such as: "There's no independent coverage of this at all." | Defenders of the article, heroes such as user ''Dolberty'' and ''Vyacheslav84'', provided dozens of sources from newspapers (''The Independent'', ''The Japan Times'', ''The Washington Post''), magazines (''Reader's Digest'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''The Week''), and books from publishers (Lonely Planet) around the world. Every single one of these sources were dismissed with ignorant comments such as: "There's no independent coverage of this at all." | ||
Then came the sad day on 22 July 2017 when it was announced in a micronations group on Facebook that Westarctica had fallen prey to the vultures of Wikipedia. | Then came the sad day on 22 July 2017 when it was announced in a micronations group on Facebook that Westarctica had fallen prey to the vultures of Wikipedia. Westarctica's existence on the "free encyclopedia anyone can edit" was erased from history with the simple words: | ||
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The result was delete. Sandstein 20:20, 22 July 2017 (UTC) | The result was delete. Sandstein 20:20, 22 July 2017 (UTC) | ||
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After years of struggle, the War for Wikipedia was lost. And all the while, less notable micronations with far less international press coverage, continue to have their articles unmolested by the foul coprophages mentioned above. | |||
==Mission== | ==Mission== | ||