Bruce Edwards Ivins (April 22, 1946 — July 29, 2008), was a scientist for 36 years and senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland for 18 years. In July 2008 he reportedly committed suicide just as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was about to charge him with a crime and seek the death penalty for his alleged connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five people and made 17 ill and terrorized the whole nation.
That’s the current opening paragraph for the Bruce Edwards Ivins article on Wikipedia and there’s nothing strange about it, unlike the image which accompanied when I checked it out earlier today:
As far as I can tell, an editor was WP:POINTing by adding this picture because fair use was disputed on an image he was trying to add to the article, but whatever. It’s a triumph, just like the uploader’s comment asserting it’s an “artistic interpretation of Bruce Edwards Ivins”.
The second edit after that image was added was to delete it for being a “inappropriate satirical caricature”. Probably the weirdest thing for me is the guy who did the first edit after the image was added. He just added the word “to” where it was missing in a paragraph midway down the page. That was his biggest fault with the article.
Hahaha.