i have spent perhaps more time than advisable to establish a paper trail for the events which resulted in unilateral censorship of all images of stalin across english wikipedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abzeronow#c-Lcdrovers-20260512162100-you_have_closed_a_discussion_with_critical_open_questions_remaining._the_policy
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the effective censorship was initiated on may 3, through deletion on wikimedia commons, which immediately propagates across wikipedia through editing bots https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bald%E2%80%93hairy&diff=prev&oldid=1352245650
removing all mentions of an object upon a page is an editorial decision that invisibilizes the act of censorship. in particular, it results in a "fail open" situation as here, in which the act of censorship continues, requiring significantly more individual effort to resolve. it is an open question whether this automated redlink removal is able to revert itself, and under what conditions
@hipsterelectron probably has to do with ukraine
