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Because of the wiki-principle, most edits of Wikipedia articles are kept within an edit history which can be viewed by everyone. Exceptions include whole articles which are deleted (their histories are no longer available to anyone other than Wikipedia administrators), and revisions of articles which may contain [[Libel|libellous]] statements, copyright violations, or other content which may incur legal liability or which may be highly detrimental to the project. As a result, Wikipedia is the first major encyclopedia where everybody can see how an article evolved over time and whether the content of an article was ever controversial. Other than the exceptions noted above, all controversial standpoints which were once voiced and afterwards deleted - and even simple vandalism - remain visible for everyone, providing additional information about the article's topic and its degree of controversy, and adding the dimension of time to every article.
==History==
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