== Edit request on 19 May 2013 == 

  

 This is probably one of the worst written articles I have read through in a while. Where the hack are you getting your sources from? This Anthony Mitchell guy just slapped together a silly "OPINION" piece which you have taken most of your information from. Also that it was written over 5 years ago. 

 Also, leet is just a word to describe elite, it is not the word to describe the act of manipulating language through symbols. That would be called "Leet Speak" and should have its own separate wiki page. 

 There are a lot of other issues with this article that I am not going to go through, but all because you are able to find sources it does not mean that those sources within themselves are accurate and could have been written by anyone. 

 Overall, this is a very misleading page.