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Multi-billionaire tech mogul Elon Musks Wikipedia page has been locked for editing after Tesla CEO encouraged people to "trash" him on the site.

"History is written by the victors except on Wikipedia," Musk tweeted on Sunday.

In a follow-up tweet, he told his followers to "trash" him on the site, which typically allows anyone to edit its pages.

"Please trash me on Wikipedia, I'm begging you," Musk said.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO responded to many of his followers who took up the challenge and shared their edits.

"All major wars, diseases and financial disasters of the last century can be directly attributed to Mr. Musk or one of his companies," one user edited the page to say, before sending the update straight to Musk, who signalled his approval.

Musk also approved of a suggestion to edit his page to describe him as a "business magnet" instead of a "business magnate." Due to the overwhelming traffic on Musk's Wikipedia page, Musk's Wikipedia page was quickly locked by the company, which limited changes to only editors approved by the site itself.

This is not the first time Musk has mentioned Wikipedia on Twitter. Earlier, he expressed disappointment with the site and its accuracy, especially regarding him.

"Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It's insane! Btw, can someone please delete 'investor.' I do basically zero investing," Musk tweeted last year.

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Wikipedia locks Elon Musk's page after he begs Twitter users to trash him on site - The Tribune India

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jalen Hurd (17) against the Dallas Cowboys in an NFL preseason football game on Aug. 10, 2019. Hurd tore his ACL during a 49ers practice over the weekend. (AP Photo/John Hefti)

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jalen Hurd (17) against the Dallas Cowboys in an NFL preseason football game on Aug. 10, 2019. Hurd tore his ACL during a 49ers practice over the weekend. (AP Photo/John Hefti)

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San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jalen Hurd (17) against the Dallas Cowboys in an NFL preseason football game on Aug. 10, 2019. Hurd tore his ACL during a 49ers practice over the weekend. (AP Photo/John Hefti)

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jalen Hurd (17) against the Dallas Cowboys in an NFL preseason football game on Aug. 10, 2019. Hurd tore his ACL during a 49ers practice over the weekend. (AP Photo/John Hefti)

Whiny baby edits Jalen Hurd's Wikipedia after 49ers receiver tears his ACL

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jalen Hurd tore his ACL during Sunday's practice and will miss the 2020 NFL season, his agent Doug Hendrickson told KNBR on Monday evening.

"It was a fluke thing, his knee just kind of gave out on an on-the-side route [running] drill," Hendrickson said.

Hurd, a third-round draft pick in 2019 from the University of Tennessee and Baylor, suffered a stress fracture in his lower back last preseason that kept him from playing in 2019 as well. He had rehabbed his way back into shape, and was expected to play an important role in San Francisco's offense this year.

Hurd's Twitter and Instagram accounts are now deleted or deactivated, which some 49ers fans on social media have asserted was a response to the vitriol in Hurd's mentions after news of his injury began circulating over the weekend. We asked the 49ers if that was indeed the reason for Hurd's social media scrubbing, but they declined to comment.

The timeline does check out, though, and on Wikipedia, someone who's very angry at a pro athlete for suffering a second debilitating injury this time in the middle of a pandemic when football matters even less than usual changed Hurd's entry to read, "His bones and ligaments are possibly made of low quality glass or wet toilet paper."

Alex Shultz is the SFGate sports editor. Email: alex.shultz@sfgate.com | Twitter: @AlexShultz

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By Wednesday morning, the pro-Trump video blogging duo Diamond and Silk were claiming, Kamala is not even Black. So you know when she talks about racism, thats why she dont care about it. Shes not even Black I dont know what she is. And Newsweek ran an op-ed arguing, using a fringe legal theory, that Harris may not be eligible to be vice president.

The battles over Harriss Wikipedia page played out primarily over the specific term African American. That debate began in earnest last week, when Harris was only a much-discussed potential running mate.

How exactly can you describe someone with south-asian ancestry as African American? one anonymous user wrote. Does this term now mean black, dark skinned, or simply non-white? Please, this is disrespectful to people from the Indian sub-continent who have their own very distinct identities.

Read: Kamala Harriss nomination is a turning point for Democrats

She identifies as African-American. End of story, replied a user named Fowler&fowler, who frequently edits India-related articles on Wikipedia. Please dont rehearse tired old banalities about who is black who is African-American. Please also dont imply (if you are doing so) for the hundredth time the other pieties about whether the Middle-Passage is a sine qua non for being one or another By any definition, she is more African-American (in the traditional meaning of the word) than Barak [sic] Obama is.

(Harriss Senate bio describes her as the second African-American woman and first South Asian-American senator in history. When she was sworn in as California attorney general, her office described her as the first African American to hold the position.)

With Wikipedias article protection preventing them from making the edits themselves, a series of mostly anonymous users instead asked for Harris to be described as something other than African American:

Some information is wrong. She is not a black. Her mother is Indian, her father is Latino. She is not either black nor native American.

She is Asian American. India, where her mother immigrated from, is part of Asia. Jamaica, where her father immigrated from, is part of North America.

Harris is the second African American woman is wrong, she is Jamaican / Indian.

Kamala Harris is not African American as this states. Her mother is Indian and her father Jamaican.

Change first African American to Jamaican American. She is not African American because her father is from Jamaica and her mother is Indian. There is no Africa there.

She was born to a foreigner from India and a Foreigner from Jamaica. How does this combination make her an African American???????????????????

She is of Jamaican decent [sic] not African.

Wikipedia administrators and other senior editors have stood by the use of African American, noting the many years of news stories and official documents that have identified her as such. Wikipedia editing thrives on consensus, and amid all the debate, the consensus of editors was that a consensus had been reached. (The word consensus currently appears 49 times in the discussion.)

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HEAVEN (The Borowitz Report)In a rare utterance from beyond the grave, Susan B. Anthony on Tuesday begged Donald J. Trump not to pardon her, stating, I dont want to be on the same Wikipedia page as Roger Stone.

Noting that an entire Wikipedia page had been created to record the people to whom Trump had granted executive clemency, Anthony said, It wasnt exactly my dream to wind up on the same list as a guy with a Nixon tattoo on his back.

In a further expression of horror, Anthony told Trump, Plus, pardoning me would mean that you would now be on my Wikipedia page. I am physically shuddering up here.

Anthony noted that it was super ironic that Trump planned to pardon her on the same day that he blasted Michelle Obama. It would be cool if you were as nice to historic women who are still alive as you are to dead ones, she said.

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Susan B. Anthony Begs Trump Not to Pardon Her: I Dont Want to Be on a Wikipedia Page with Roger Stone - The New Yorker

Yesterday, 67 volunteers added more than 17,000 words and 180 references to Wikipedia pages dedicated to female artists of color, including Simone Leigh, Deborah Willis, and Joyce J. Scott.

The drive was part of this years Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, an annual series of events organized by the nonprofit outfit Art+Feminism, which sees groups of web-savvy individuals convene with computers in an effort to even out the representation balance on one of the worlds most popular websites.

Various institutions around the world have mounted Edit-a-Thons since they were first launched by Art+Feminism in 2014, including the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and the Hammer Museum. But no venue has been responsible for more events than Washington, DCs National Museum of Women in the Arts, which has staged one for seven years straight.

The museum was also the host of yesterdays effort, which was held remotely and co-sponsored by Art+Feminism and Wikimedia DC. The event boastedthe most volunteers NMWA has ever had for an Edit-a-Thon, a representative told Artnet News. Altogether, 85 articles were edited, fleshed out, or corrected, and two new pages were created.

Of the artists whose profiles were improved, many are well-known names, including Zanele Muholi, Carrie Mae Weems, and Amy Sherald. Others, like French illustrator Tha Rojzman, Indonesian designer Dr. Dwinita Larasati, and Dutch comic artist Andrea Kruis, have smaller online footprints.

Zanele Muholi at work in a production still from the Art21 Extended Play film, Zanele Muholi: Mobile Studios. Art21, Inc. 2019.

While the number of Black women artists represented with Wikipedia articles has been growing in recent years, the number and quality of articles falls far short of the breadth of Black womens artistic contributions, said Lynora Williams, director of the Betty Boyd Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, who led the event. Many of the articles are skimpy and do not rise to the standard of other artists. By simply enumerating the Black women artists whose articles could be improved, we made an important step forward in correcting the invisibility of these artists.

The participants in yesterdays edit-a-thon are pushing us forward, and we hope to continue this project in the coming months and years, Williams added.

Since 2014, more than 18,000 volunteers have participated in 1,260 Edit-a-Thons across the globe, altering or creating some 84,000 articles, according to Hyperallergic. Another edition of the Edit-a-Thon will be held virtually tomorrow, August 13, by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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Wikipedia Entries About Female Artists of Color Tend to Be Lacking. So Volunteers Fleshed Out 85 of Them in a Virtual Edit-a-Thon - artnet News