Steve Bennett wrote:
Heh, ok, but by "what's the lesson", I mean, in what way, if any, should Wikipedia consider changing its policies considering there is now such a big payoff for people adding vanity information.
Sorry I'm replying to this weeks-old message, but ... "big payoff"? How is the payoff any bigger than before? I think you're forgetting that if Google gets faster at indexing new articles, it also gets faster at removing articles from its index as they get deleted from Wikipedia.