Wikipedia Editor Who First Noted Henry Kissinger's Death Has Become an 'Instant Legend'
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An editor named Asticky is receiving congratulations and accolades from other users on the site after becoming the first to update Kissinger's page.

Wikipedia users are celebrating the first user to edit Henry Kissinger’s Wikipedia page after the widely-hated American statesman and war criminal was announced dead on Wednesday at the age of 100.

“I’m now forever the girl who changed ‘is’ to ‘was’ on Henry Kissinger’s Wikipedia article,” reads the bio of the Wikipedia user Asticky, who updated her bio after editing Kissinger’s page on 8:46 PM EST on Wednesday. Since then, dozens of users have responded with messages of support and congratulations to Asticky on being the first to edit the page. …

  • CheradenineEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    I liked this bit at the end of the article too

    'On Thursday morning, the Twitter account “Depths of Wikipedia” followed up with another Kissinger-related update: the Wikipedia article for “Hangover” had seen a three-fold increase in traffic.’

    My boss called me up ‘did you hear?’ Yep, bastard is finally dead ‘drinks at mine at 6:30’. We both lived and worked in Cambodia years ago. Much single malt was had.