Schrödinger's Tree

So this all began with the story of a tree. 



And also with a Wikipedia page titled 'Communications and Technology NYUAD'. The latter was swiftly deleted, but it prompted a user going by the moniker Mr. Stradivarius to start a page for New York University Abu Dhabi.


I posted this to our student body's Facebook page, well aware that our own Student Government intended on creating a page for us eventually. But someone had beaten us to it. (For the bigger picture, you might need to open the images below in separate tabs/windows.)



But I didn't think us students should be beaten at our own game. What did we (or at least some of us) know that Mr. Stradivarius, a language teacher living in Japan, didn't? And so I added to the article. 

This section of the article can still be seen in the history section. But I was quickly (and very kindly) reprimanded:


So I removed the references to my and friends' blogs, and replaced them with a link to our student publication, The Fishbowl Tribune. Turns out this still wasn't good enough:


An intriguing reference to the Encyclopædia Britannica, I thought. Just before Mr. Stradivarius deleted the section of the article forever, though, a friend copied the post and it appeared on Facebook, in the comments thread of my earlier post pictured above.




The legend lives on. And one day it will return to Wikipedia.

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