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Niki Ashton may not want you to know about her marriage

The Manitoba MP announced on March 7 that she was running for the leadership of the federal NDP. The night before the announcement, someone used a Parliament Hill computer to delete all mention of Ashton’s 2011 wedding in Alexandroupoli, Greece. The edit didn’t stick, however, and as of this writing was restored to the page.

(UPDATE: Ashton has since reported on Twitterthat her marital status has changed.)

The Canadian Armed Forces eat “dinner,” not “lunch”

As one might expect, Canada’s Department of National Defence usually edits Wikipedia to make incredibly pedantic corrections. Someone in the military, for instance, took the time to replace every mention of “Russian” with “Soviet” in the Wikipedia article about the 1972 Summit Series. And in an article about basic training, it was made very clear that Canadian Forces members eat “dinner and supper,” not “lunch and dinner.”

A Department of National Defence instructor really, really wants you to read his fantasy novel

In February, a military staffer endeavoured to get an obscure fantasy novel mentioned in as many corners of Wikipedia as they could. Damastor is set during the ravages of the Black Plague, and was inserted into Wikipedia lists for “Indie literature,” “List of fantasy novels” and the disambiguation pages for “Fallen Angel,” “Evil Angel” and “Medieval Fantasy.” The editor also appears to have taken a snipe at a certain British publishing house known for being unfriendly to fantasy writers. Damastor was written by Dimitri Iatrou, which just happens to also be the name of an instructor at the military’s International Language Institute.