Amherst Wikipedia Revisions

I changed (vandalized) the amherst college wikipedia entry last Thursday in class. Until today, almost all the changes had gone unnoticed. Yesterday at 11am, someone changed the "AmHerst" pronunciation guide to a more amherst-friendly "Am'erst."

Today, a registered user removed many of the additions i had made to the athletics section of the page. They removed "Rival Williams College has won the Director's Cup nine of the ten years since its inception, including seven years in a row through 2005." And instead just left the sentence as, "Amherst has one of the best Division III athletic programs in the country, placing in the top ten of the NACDA Director's Cup five of the last ten years."

Also, i had cut and pasted an entire paragraph about amherst having a time-honored tradition of losing to Williams, but this was completely removed.

The only surviving alteration is that the "Astronaut Alumni" entries were deleted, and have not been put back up. My conclusion, deletion-type vandalism is probably more likely to go undetected because people won't notice it just browsing entries.

So, to the amherst alumni astronauts Robert A. R. Parker and Jeffrey A. Hoffman, i'm sorry that you have lost publicity on Wikipedia. I trust that someone will put this information back up at some point. If it isn't done in a timely manner, i'll be sure to add the names to the entry.