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you are spitting bullshit. antep castle was an important part of the city, of course we are sad. hagia sophia was a mosque for many many years during ottoman era, conversion happened back then. we don't see antep castle as a mere roman relic, it was a part of that city's heritage. hundreds of people are dead, castle is not a priority right now but we'll get to it.
Holy crap there is already a Wikipedia article about the earthquake, and it's huge!
Wikipedians are insane >

They are those people that would have been scribes and chroniclers in the past. They would have lived their days recording censuses, documenting significant events in a kingdom, or record the lives of great individuals. To them information is something that needs to be recorded accurately as possible and done as quickly as one can do so. In a weird way they do the world a service by being ready to jump in and add such information at a moments notice. >

Most are anonymous and not all do it for free. There are hints of various governments and corporations "helping" edit Wikipedia for example. Wikipedia itself has an article on that with examples. >

Yeah, Wikipedia likes to present itself as some kind of generous charity but there are enormous motivations to control the content and the politics of editing it are highly charged politically. It's not just charitable volunteers, there are plenty of motivations to be the one who gets to make the edits. 
So many topics get deleted from Wikipedia. Political figures are deleted, military related articles disappear, articles about toxic dumping, industry scandals. There are plenty of reasons why many people are eager to edit Wikipedia that don't require being paid for it. And it's like Reddit in the sense that people want to build up good credit in some neutral topics in order to cash that in later when the controversial stuff comes up. >

mind sharing some examples of said censorship? >

He's full of shit of course >

Almost 2000 years of history gone. Wow. >

What collapsed here was the modern restoration work, it’s been levelled back to what was still standing in the 1990’s. 
So what we have here is an indictment of construction quality in modern turkey, the ancient masonry survived. >

I know a friend who can do it for cheap, I call him you pay >

Only for you, my friend... >

Why did I read this with an accent >

Maybe that’s how you’ve always (or mostly) heard it? Because I read that with the accent too. 
Man, conditioning is a bitch. >

My main concern after human lives and economic damage is that region is full of ancient sites like göbekli tepe. There are thousands of sites that are being excavated or still underground. Hope we don't lose any of it. >

It’s honestly incredible we have as many intact ancient buildings as we do. >

Yeah, when you really think about it, it's impressive so many old buildings survive natural disasters. >

Imagine all the buildings that didn’t. >

About 5 or 6. Just gone >

Well that fuckin' sucks. It's always sad to see an ancient building come down. >

At least it was nature and not from war >

Not just nature, but the one aspect of nature you really can't do much about it nor be prepared for. Earthquakes are so unpredictable in terms of when they will happen and how powerful they will be that you could still have a buildings collapse if they are older or not capable of withstanding certain magnitudes. Its basically hope your buildings can handle it or its a small short one that isn't too powerful. >

Of course you can prepare for them from an infrastructural perspective. Just look at Japan, with even skyscrapers designed to withstand earthquakes. Turkey was simply not prepared in this way. >

This thing's done an absolute shit ton of damage already, and this big the aftershocks are going to keep fucking people's lives up for a while. >

It was the case after Japan's 2011 earthquake. There were aftershocks up to magnitude 7 for weeks and up to 6 for months. >

"the castle collapsed....." "...on the other hand, the dome next to the castle also partially collapsed" 
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The fuck kind of journalism is this lmao. >

I think that what they were trying to get at there was the dome did not collapse but was partially damaged as opposed to the castle wall which did indeed completely collapse. The part that collapsed was just a wall though. They leave that part out. The towers were mostly standing. >

very sad >

This is really sad. I've been to that area before and it's one of the most historically rich areas in the world. And the people are hospitable and wonderful. Prayers for them. >

It can be rebuilt, right?
.. right? >

Yes, it can be restored. It wasn't totally destroyed nor damaged beyond repair. >

Super weird phrasing in that article. >

DON'T click that link on mobile >

Why? It was fine for me >

Cueing up Nile’s “Call to Destruction” >

What kind of POS news site can't think of showing a before and after photo?
Honestly