After the massive altruistic effort to put up Wikipedia, Wikipedians for Hire showed up. The original editors thought the project was completed and retired. These hired guys have brick-throwers in the old style of racketeering. Hired Wikipedians are allowed under WP rules, but they are considered Black Hats.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bbb23#Douglas_Youvan_Info_Box , but you will soon have to look in Bbb23's talk archives.
Virtually any article can be taken down by stringent prosecution of WP rules. For example, they just removed Adam Arkin and Simon Delagrave as my grad students, because there is no such reference. They even removed my wife!
Here's the big Orwellian problem: When the Congressperson asks their aids about subject X, guess where they go? So, more of you need to get on and edit.
They didn't quite understand the analogy to the "Atavan Gang" in the Philippines: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Doug_youvan#Death
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