In a single day, about 500,000 edits are made to the English version of Wikipedia, and approximately 800 new articles crop up. But for each incoming new page, anywhere from 400–500 pages are deleted entirely, daily. “Famous watermelons,” “How do i stop my son from looking at picachu porn,” “List of fictional characters with removable or interchangeable heads” — all have met their fate in the digital graveyard of Wikipedia’s “Deleted articles with freaky titles” page.

Wikipedia is the web’s most expansive encyclopedia, but the nature of its crowdsourced information makes it prone to vandalism, misinformation, and a deeper question of what truly deserves its own page. Twitter accounts like @DeletedWiki memorialize these dead pages by…

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