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@ Skomorokh

The edit history system highlights deletions in red on a green or yellow background. Unless you carefully read all the edit history text line by line, you are quite likely not to notice a HTML comment code Invisible Comment block, which at first glance looks just like the normal text which is published in that version of the article. If you are not familiar with HTML source code, this is effectively a ""stealth"" deletion,  although obviously not entirely an invisible one.

The Hubertus Bigend page was originally written in August 2007 i.e. months before your excellent Node Magazine page in October 2007

The fictional Wikipedia biography of the character Hubertus Bigend is now inextricably linked with any new discussions of that character in either Pattern Recognition or Spook Country.

The references to the use of Google and Wikipedia and other online resources by William Gibson, and by mainstream media book reviewers and fans, are precisely those currently categorised as  External References. This is  not a comprehensive list of reviews of the book, but only some of the ones which mention this ""online cloud"" or which are part of that cloud itself. These references are now orphaned and out of context.

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