Out of site: Firm entry wiped off Wikipedia

Wikipedia editors removed the site’s entry for Rosemont Seneca Partners, the investment firm cofounded by Hunter Biden, last week on the grounds that it was “not notable,” archived comments on the entry reveal.

The deletion happened Wednesday. The firm has been at the heart of questions surrounding the presidential son’s overseas business dealings.

“This organization is only mentioned in connection with its famous founders, Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz,” an editor identified only as Alex wrote in the article’s “talk page,” citing Wikipedia’s guidance for determining whether subjects are “notable” enough to merit their own entries.

Alex also warned that “keeping it around additionally risks” violating the site’s guidance for exercising sensitivity when adding information about living people, “as this is a magnet for conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden.”

Comments arguing for merging the Rosemont article with Wikipedia’s existing article on Hunter Biden were overruled.

Before its deletion, the brief article on Rosemont was thin on detail and in need of an overhaul, but it provided information about the firm’s founding by Biden, Heinz and Devon Archer.

Wikipedia, which is publicly edited and claims a neutral point of view, has faced accusations of a left-leaning bias, with its cofounder Larry Sanger claiming the site can no longer be trusted and has become “propaganda.”

“There’s a very big, nasty, complex game being played behind the scenes to make the article say what somebody wants them to say,” Sanger said last year.

Critics said the Rosemont decision revealed a double standard.

“If a Trump-linked company had its Wikipedia page wiped or one from the Russia probe, it’s more than a safe bet to say that CNN would be dedicating multiple reporters to following the Internet trail,” Curtis Houck, managing editor of the Media Research Center, told The Post.