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When 'Bhutanese passport' was deleted from Wiki after being subjected to trolls

Written by : TNM

The News Minute | March 25, 2015 | 04.20 pm ISTA few days back, if one was to go on Wikipedia and type the words ‘Bhutanese passport’ , an innocuous article accompanied with an audio clip would have turned up.A recording uploaded in 2013, it received a lot of publicity after many interpreted the clip said to be recorded by a native of Bhutan as a racist joke. However, after the attention it garnered, the audio clip was nominated for deletion with the reason given as poor audio made for fun. The clip also found itself mentioned on 9gag, a social media website. Listen to the Youtube video of the audio clip. And some parody versions of the original recording:  TweetFollow @thenewsminute

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