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
the editing bot that removes red links also notifies the admin authorizing the deletion of the further cover-up operations. however it is "unable" to link to the discussion justifying the deletion correctly:
Removing Joseph_Stalin_in_1932_(4)_(cropped)(2).jpg; it has been deleted from Commons by Abzeronow because: per [[:c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Portrait photogra
that is a completely broken wikilink to the deletion request. iiuc, the broken wikilink also fails to backlink. this means: functionality which would have produced a log of the cascading bot censorship upon the may 3 admin censorship, is currently broken
@hipsterelectron probably has to do with ukraine
