Yep. Just when I thought that there was a safe haven for the preservation of content, I learned that “safe haven” means keeping things constantly in flux while retaining the journey in logs.

As per our assignment in my social media class, I went to Wikipedia article about the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and made a change that I thought was appropriate. I made the change (according to the Wikipedia log) on September 17, at 19:27. (I added in the LDS doctrine of baptism by immersion.) Well, less than a day later (September 18, 9:40), my change was deleted with the explanation “baptism by immersion doesn’t distinguish it from other christian denominations–many christian denoms have baptism by immersion.”

I have to conclude that Good Olfactory (user name of person who changed my entry to Wikipedia) was right in changing my addition. And well, Good Olfactory made more than 20 other changes that day, so I am assuming that many of my colleagues learned about revisionist history in this exercise.