Controlling the Narrative: Belmont Club vanishes

A student on the island of Montreal who describes himself as "liberal" has deleted the Wikipedia entry concerning the Belmont Club. Update: The entry has now been restored. That was quick.  Wretchard comments.  Read the whole thing.

Wikipedia doesn't yet have complete control over content on the internet. Here's the site of the earliest entries at The Belmont Club.

A few years ago, Belmont Club had to move to a new site when the first one got too big. That's where I found Wretchard's entries and the often-fascinating comment threads which followed. Many of the contributors also had fanciful "noms de blog". I had no idea who Wretchard was at the time. It didn't matter much to me. I still don't know anything personal about the people who regularly commented on his posts.

I learned Wretchard's real name when he moved to Pajamas Media. It added a little depth to certain stories to know that he was active in the resistance to the corrupt Marcos regime in the Philippines, that he had attended college in the U.S. and that he has Australian citizenship. But it was also kind of nice in the old days, when the focus was on ideas, rather than personalities. He has a larger audience now, though.