On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Sean Barrett wrote:
It is entirely untrue that "spoiler warnings were deleted en masse by one or two people using automation software without reading the articles they were in."
If you assume it takes a minute per article, 45000 articles is 750 hours of nothing but reading Wikipedia articles. And the number 45000 is only the last number we have; it isn't really the total.
It's impossible to read all those articles. It *had* to be done without reading the articles (and certainly without achieving consensus on each article individually.)