This kind of whitewashing should've been expected from the start, so there is nothing surprising there. A good way to manage such conflicts would be to add a user voting system to the edits. If the majority of the users think that an edit to an article is unfair it should not be committed. Although this is a very simplistic view of the solution I believe it is the right direction for wikipedia.
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Drakes' Fortune? No Assassin's Creed? Who are these people anyway to take upon themselves to decide which game to nominate or not. [LOB].
Add games industry to the list of things that they've screwed up by mixing it with politics.
This kind of whitewashing should've been expected from the start, so there is nothing surprising there. A good way to manage such conflicts would be to add a user voting system to the edits. If the majority of the users think that an edit to an article is unfair it should not be committed. Although this is a very simplistic view of the solution I believe it is the right direction for wikipedia.