It's interesting to note that Wikipedia does this for other pages that were "based on real facts" or were hoaxes. The one that comes to mind right away is Blair Witch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project
The movie's official website featured fake police reports and "newsreel-style" interviews. These augmented the movie's found footage style to spark debates across the internet over whether the movie was a real-life documentary or a work of fiction.[30]
Apparently when its their OX getting gored its not ok.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_create_hoaxes...
Rather than reference itself it would prefer to refer to sources that refer back to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restorin...
However ...
> A message by Wikipedia system administrator Brion Vibber from January 2007 warned that deleted revisions could theoretically be cleared without warning at any time, and a script exists to perform this function. However in practice they have only been cleared twice, both times due to technical issues – once on 3 December 2003, because the Wikipedia database was transferred to a new server, and once on 8 June 2004 due to a database crash.
This is, of course, different from the revision history for an article, which shows each edit and is available for public inspection, e.g., ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_learning&off...
Almost, but no cigar :(