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D. F. Lovett

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I write Edit History on Substack and some other stuff.

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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
thanks for sharing!
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Ann Smarty @seosmarty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Have we forgotten the lessons of Woody Harrelson’s Rampart AMA? edithistory.substack.com/p/have-we-fo... via @dflovett.bsky.social
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Have we forgotten the lessons of Woody Harrelson’s Rampart AMA?
“Let’s focus on the film, people.”
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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Very strange and funny internet mystery where it appears a random German reviewer invented the episode titles for Queer As Folk US that are currently used on streaming services edithistory.substack.com/p/did-someon...
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Did someone streetshark the Queer as Folk episode titles?
Happy Pride Month! Also, streetsharking is a verb now.
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Jake @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Pitchfork-Wikipedia drama. edithistory.substack.com/p/congrats-t...
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Congrats to Pitchfork on the Wikipedia scandal of 2026
This time, the Wikipedia drama is happening on TikTok.
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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 08/05/2026
This story is one of Lovett’s best. It’s rare that anything on Wikipedia gets a true conclusion, much less a relatively happy one where the parties agree they both made honest mistakes. Sometimes “assume good faith” works.
edithistory.substack.com
What's going on with Evan Spiegel's Wikipedia photo?
A weird little Wikipedia story from recent days
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
happy alien day to those who celebrate. I honored it by writing about the bonkersness of /r/alien recently edithistory.substack.com/p/ralien-is-...
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/r/alien is the best subreddit
because of its never-ending identity crisis.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
that talk page is so wild.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
that's because it's a masterpiece!
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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's been almost a decade since my Street Sharks hoax and it's still getting cited lmao edithistory.substack.com/p/citogenesi...
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Citogenesis, the AI slop loop and Street Sharks
Circular reporting is only getting worse as the internet gets older.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Realized I haven't posted anything about Top Ten Scary Games You Can Play in Your Head, By Yourself on here. Okay, rectifying that. It's a book that's real and you should buy it.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
lol thanks
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Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review @deepfocusreview.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A good read for non-Minnesotans.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote something about Minnesota: edithistory.substack.com/p/minnesota-...
edithistory.substack.com
Minnesota is not an imaginary place on the internet.
A lot of people have a lot to say about a place they don't know.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I interviewed the aspiring Julian Assange of Wikipedia. edithistory.substack.com/p/i-intervie...
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I interviewed the aspiring Julian Assange of Wikipedia
I hope no one gets mad at me.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Looking at where recent ex-MLS coaches are, found out someone created a Wikipedia account solely to edit the page for John Herdman. April 9, 2025 was when news broke that Bayern was considering legal action after Alphonso Davies' knee injury. That day's edits bigged up his legacy - blue/right=new.
Wiki profile history for username AnnWinterburneWikipedia edits to John Herdman's page adding that he's "widely recognized for his contributions to Canadian soccer. He is the only coach to have led both a women's and men's national team from the same country to a FIFA World Cup.Wikipedia edits on John Herdman's wikipedia, showing removal of mention that Canada Soccer's "independent committee informed the parties that Mr. Herdman was found to have committed misconduct under the Canada Soccer Disciplinary Code."Wikipedia edits on John Herdman's page showing added editorialization of his time with the Canada women's national team. 

"Canada women were in disarray. Some veteran players were contemplating early retirements until Herdman arrived."
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 03/01/2026
The mysterious Ann Winterburne — who has only ever edited John Herdman's Wikipedia page — was back at it again last month, deleting the entire Canada drone spying scandal section while Herdman was in talks with the Indonesian national team
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I wrote about Chili's: edithistory.substack.com/p/chilis-doe...
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Chili’s doesn’t have chili on the menu anymore.
Should Wikipedia include this fact? (Plus, read to the end for a minor defense of Grokipedia.)
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Thanks for sharing, @billadair.com !
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Bill Adair @billadair.com · 16/11/2025
Some fascinating detective work here by DF Lovett on the edits to Jeffrey Epstein's Wikipedia page. open.substack.com/pub/edithist...
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Did Jeffrey Epstein edit his own Wikipedia article?
I think there's a good chance he did, in 2007 at least.
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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 28/10/2025
wasn’t my most out-there take, but still… called it
“Every major AI system trains on Wikipedia’s freely licensed knowledge,” said Stephen Harrison, a journalist and author who has covered Wikipedia extensively, on Friday. “The irony is that Grokipedia will be built on the unpaid labor of the volunteer Wikipedia editors Musk has gone out of his way to vilify.”  —Washington Post
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Here's my second, about his 2010 SEO strategy and the sports blog he created to try to bury negative results: edithistory.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
edithistory.substack.com
Jeffrey Epstein started a sports blog in 2010
He was trying to do SEO. It didn't work very well.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Here's the first one I wrote, about my suspicion that he was attempting to edit his own Wikipedia article in 2007 (before he hired people) to remove all negative (and accurate) information about him: edithistory.substack.com/p/did-jeffre...
edithistory.substack.com
Did Jeffrey Epstein edit his own Wikipedia article?
I think there's a good chance he did, in 2007 at least.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I've written two things about Jeffrey Epstein, Wikipedia and SEO. I'm seeing a lot of stories saying he used SEO to bury his negative results. I think a more accurate depiction is that he *tried* to do that.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
thank you!
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Thanks for sharing this! It's pretty crazy. Epstein was Grantland before Grantland.
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 17/11/2025
the full text of "MICHAEL VICK REDEEMED? by Jeffrey Epstein" is reprinted here in case uh anyone was curious edithistory.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
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Jeffrey Epstein started a sports blog in 2010
He was trying to do SEO. It didn't work very well.
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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 05/09/2025
"Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one... its contributors are difficult for any particular state to persecute... there's no government funding to cut off or advertisers to boycott. And it's so popular and useful that even highly repressive governments hesitate to block it."
theverge.com
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This was a pleasure to write: edithistory.substack.com/p/i-intervie...
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I interviewed the journalist who interviewed Brian Wilson about Norbit
Because someone had to figure out if this pervasive internet rumor was true.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I'll stand by it as a good faith bad edit!
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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 12/05/2025
This guy edited the new pope's Wikipedia page to say he was a Cubs fan—everyone was saying it, and there was a source (USA Today) to back it up. Then the new pope's brother confirmed that Leo has always been a White Sox fan. Lesson: Verifiability ≠ truth. edithistory.substack.com/p/i-edited-p...
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I edited Pope Leo XIV's Wikipedia article to say he was a Cubs fan.
But I'm not the one who started the rumor. I swear, I did nothing wrong.
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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 15/04/2025
Shoutout to @dflovett.bsky.social for confirming that my Wikipedia inspired novel is, in fact, a “banger.” Full write-up in his newsletter, Edit History. open.substack.com/pub/edithist...
open.substack.com
Stephen Harrison’s The Editors is the Most Relevant Novel I’ve Read
I understand that sounds like hyperbole. Let me explain.
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Pierre-Yves Beaudouin @pyb75.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Je connais, y'a même des citations de moi dans la presse de l'époque 😅
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Ahsoka ✨💫💙🇺🇦😷🌐🔵☮️🍉🏴 @ahsokatano00.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
So there was a failed attempt by Google to create a Wikipedia competitor. @dgoldman.bsky.social @revmagdalen.bsky.social
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
thank you! I appreciate you reading and sharing. Things have been a bit of a whirlwind for me since Flaa shared her YouTube video about this.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Here's my latest Substack thing, about Knol, something I had never heard of but is one of Google's past failures: edithistory.substack.com/p/remember-k...
edithistory.substack.com
Remember Knol, Google’s user-generated Encyclopedia?
Yeah, me neither.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Thank you! Working on the follow-up from it.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Glad you liked it and thank you for sharing!
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thewikipedian.bsky.social @thewikipedian.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Was Wikipedia manipulated as part of the Blake Lively smear campaign?" a compelling investigation + a good read by @dflovett.bsky.social
edithistory.substack.com
Was Wikipedia manipulated as part of the Blake Lively smear campaign?
I think it was. Here's what I've learned.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I wrote a thing I'm pretty proud of: edithistory.substack.com/p/was-wikipe...
edithistory.substack.com
Was Wikipedia manipulated as part of the Blake Lively smear campaign?
I think it was. Here's what I've learned.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I wrote another thing about Wikipedia: edithistory.substack.com/p/i-am-one-o...
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I am one of the editors of Elon Musk’s Wikipedia page.
I’m confident that he does not understand Wikipedia at all. And (probably) neither do you.
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SEO Memes Near Me @seomemesnearme.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
if you're an SEO person, you might be happy to know that @seomemesnearme.bsky.social is on Bluesky now
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 02/01/2025
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
citationneeded.news
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I published something on substack for the first time. It's about the Wikipedia article for "Search engine optimization": open.substack.com/pub/edithist...
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Why is the Wikipedia page for “Search engine optimization” so bad?
And what I intend to do about it.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Still very curious about who Jed Wallace, the "hired gun" who manipulated social on behalf of Baldon, really is. This locked and deleted reddit post only makes me wonder more: www.reddit.com/r/blakelivel...
reddit.com
Jed Avery Wallace of Street Relations is running the campaign on Reddit
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I suspect that it's also harder to get that TikTok data than it is for the other channels.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My suspicion, especially seeing that @sparktoro.bsky.social doesn't have a TikTok link in their footer, is they are waiting for it to get banned and not investing time until then.
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Anyone else stumped by @sparktoro.bsky.social 's absence of TikTok data? Is it because they're waiting for TikTok to be banned and ignoring it until then?
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D. F. Lovett @dflovett.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Is there anything like the euphoria that comes from capturing a seasonal PAA?
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