The current deletion is for reasons that include lack of NCORP (Notability (organizations and companies)). And they back that in turn by saying that the sources are weak.
I understand on one side that they don’t want every company in the world to have a Wikipedia page. Because the point of Wikipedia is not to promote or legitimise every company in the world.
But you’d think that at the point where widely covered news of a hack leading to a loss of a billion dollars and a half, would be reason to have a Wikipedia article about it.
And instead they went and deleted the article today.
There’s probably additional editing of the page itself that you can dig into the history of if you want to see what happened during the past couple of days leading up to the page being deleted again.
For me, I’ll file this under Wikipedia Editors gonna Edit. They have all kinds of edit wars and page deletions going on all the time in the background that the rest of us mostly don’t even notice most of the time. And all over I’m still happy with Wikipedia for all of the information it has collected within.
It could be resurrected if there are multiple news stories making it notable for being hacked. It would have to be rewritten, though, to give it substantially different content.
They're basically saying "nah, that's spam". So when it was recreated yet again, of course it was speedily terminated with prejudice because it just looks like another spam attempt.
Not sure if there's a rule against covering news stories. Seems like we wouldn't want an article on every news event (I'm pretty sure there is a rule against that), but Crowdstrike got an article.
Since yesterday someone has put in the work to make a minimal article that mentions the hack, with good sources (BBC, NYT), and that is now what’s on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bybit
I suppose that over time the article might grow. Either way it’s nice that someone put in the work to make a new article that records this hack.
Just like I would expect Wikipedia to have an article on Enron and their shenanigans, or the Norwegian language version of Wikipedia to have an article about the NOKAS robbery, I think it makes sense that Wikipedia has a record in its articles about the largest crypto hack so far. And that this hack is mentioned in an article about the exchange itself.
