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The first Wikipedia article on Incel came about half-a-decade after the very beginnings of the self-identified community back in the late 90s. Wikipedia debuted on Jan. 15, 2001 and the Incel page was made on July 29, 2004.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040729080456/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Involuntary_celibacy</ref> Using archive.org, you can see that the idea of Incel was presented as a neutral term as well as gender-neutral. It was nicely unbiased, as how the Incel community had had it for so many years. For the next decade, incels could find [[IncelSupport]] through Wikipedia and see that it was a place for anyone. Here is an example from 2006: "Yes, hickoryridge, Cernan posted a link to this site on Wikipedia! He's doing a great job, isn't he?"<ref>http://z15.invisionfree.com/IncelSupport/ar/t42.htm</ref> | The first Wikipedia article on Incel came about half-a-decade after the very beginnings of the self-identified community back in the late 90s. Wikipedia debuted on Jan. 15, 2001 and the Incel page was made on July 29, 2004.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040729080456/http://en.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/Involuntary_celibacy</ref> Using archive.org, you can see that the idea of Incel was presented as a neutral term as well as gender-neutral. It was nicely unbiased, as how the Incel community had had it for so many years. For the next decade, incels could find [[IncelSupport]] through Wikipedia and see that it was a place for anyone. Here is an example from 2006: "Yes, hickoryridge, Cernan posted a link to this site on Wikipedia! He's doing a great job, isn't he?"<ref>http://z15.invisionfree.com/IncelSupport/ar/t42.htm</ref> | ||
The incel article was deleted on 13 August 2015, and then again on 8 October 2015, and then finally on 29 December 2015, at which pointed it was also protected against re-creation. After the [[Toronto van attack]], [[GorillaWarfare]] re-created the article on 24 April 2018 and wrote much of its current content. On 15 June 2018, [[Courcelles]] semi-protected the article indefinitely against editing by non-autoconfirmed users.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Incel Log], Wikipedia</ref> | The incel article was deleted on 13 August 2015, and then again on 8 October 2015, and then finally on 29 December 2015, at which pointed it was also protected against re-creation. After the [[Toronto van attack]], [[GorillaWarfare]] re-created the article on 24 April 2018 and wrote much of its current content. On 15 June 2018, [[Courcelles]] semi-protected the article indefinitely against editing by non-autoconfirmed users.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Incel Log], Wikipedia</ref> As of 2018, the incel/involuntary celibacy article has been deleted and recreated 5 times. | ||
==Post-Minassian Attack Controversy== | ==Post-Minassian Attack Controversy== | ||