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Sorry but that is not fun. We should have more respect towards volunteers time.

I lot of these editors are jaded because they spend so much time dealing with "hilarious bro prannks." I don't envy them.

Any way to view what the article looked like before it was deleted?

Sadly I think it's disappeared into the ether. I also tried to find the Faroe Islands News Service blog that my friend put together, but it seems to be dead as well.

Here's an image of the last revision before it was deleted: https://i.imgur.com/mlip1D9.png

Wikipedia has a policy against this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring...

The wayback machine just captured it once, and that was after the deletion.

For old articles probably not, but now there is: http://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page

Ironically this sort of prank is probably worth an article on wikipedia...