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Jul 30, 2026

Banned from Wikidata Overnight — I Believed Every Edit Was Compliant, but All 109 Items Were Deleted as Promotion

A postmortem of losing 109 Wikidata items and an account in one night. Every individual edit was believed to be policy-compliant — sourced, constraint-checked — but moderation judges the account-level pattern, not each edit. What I did the same day (withdrawal, purging dead references, a plain apology), and how I converted the failure into design records and agent rules.

Jul 30, 202613 min read0 reactions0 comments