Amazing thing is it is still there, did not cause months long arbitrations, several bannings and enough drama to last five seasons of a soap opera.
Am I missing a reference?
Wikipedia is notorious for tedious and sometimes explosive discussions of even the most minor edits. Sayre's law in action.
the wiki reference talking about rafting photographers ([1] for convenience) using this is pretty cool - gives you a (somewhat sensationalized) sense of the the reliability of the pigeons.