A ministry asked Wikipedia to delete a minister's pageSourced
The minister disliked his Wikipedia page.
His ministry asked for it to be deleted.
In 2019, Brazil's education ministry emailed a Portuguese Wikipedia administrator seeking deletion of the education minister's article. It later demanded that editing restrictions be lifted and threatened legal action. The article remained.
The deletion request became
a story of its own.
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