Wikipedia Editors Change Everything

Wikipedia editors changing everything to past tense after someone dies

A tired-looking animated man wearing headphones stares at a computer. The joke is that Wikipedia editors immediately rewrite a deceased person’s biography in the past tense, presenting a pedantic editing habit as an exhausting routine. People send it as a reaction to someone dying or to obsessive fact-checking and editing. EN: A tired-looking animated man wearing headphones stares at a computer. The joke is that Wikipedia editors immediately rewrite a deceased person’s biography in the past tense, presenting a pedantic editing habit as an exhausting routine. People send it as a reaction to someone dying or to obsessive fact-checking and editing.

• @afrosidemoon / 29040 2020-06-28