Home / Google News / Wikipedia Deletes World-Famous SEO From Site: An Ode To Barry Apr 16, 2026 - 7:41 am 5 — by If you Google “barry schwartz” you may not find your friendly-neighborhood SEO news writer. Instead, you will find this, what I call “fake Barry”: Barry Schwartz has always played second fiddle on the SERP to “fake” Barry Schwartz. No matter how hard he tried, the internet just fought back harder. Until it broke him. Now he will never have his Knowledge Panel, and “fake Barry” (who happens to be a world-renowned psychologist) will always overshadow the King of Search. The internet is no grace land. Thank you, Wikipedia. You bastards. On April 13th, 2026, at 9:14 PM local time, I found out that Wikipedia had killed Barry Schwartz’s Wikipedia page, and with it, his hopes. OK, @rustybrick 's Wikipedia page was just deleted. If you read the conversation between Wikipedia contributors, you will be shaking your head the entire time.…