In a pathetic display of lack of restraint, the Wikipedia vandal who’s been defacing MN GOP Chairman Tony Sutton’s Wikipedia page has been suspended by fed up editors. The Talk page for this use shows the warnings that the vandal editor received before being banned: The vandal didn’t even go out with a bang. Instead, [...]
Someone who appears to be to the left, politically, of Tony Sutton, and a Comcast internet user, has been vandalizing Tony Sutton’s Wikipedia Page. The text in red below are the work of a rogue Wikipedia editor publishing from the IP address 69.180.156.203. Looking at the history of contributions from that IP address, most have [...]
As I mentioned on the 19th, editing the Wikipedia page of someone you dislike can be difficult, since it’s tough to maintain a neutral point of view on such subjects. Yesterday, someone stepped up to the challenge by adding some background on Tony Sutton’s business practices. Based on their IP address, they appear to be [...]
Here is a challenging way to learn how to edit Wikipedia: try making edits to the pages of people you don’t like. For example, I made a few changes to MN GOP Chair, Tony Sutton’s Wikipedia page last night to include his recent career change.: The trick here is to make edits with a neutral [...]
I’ve seen some crazy stuff on Wikipedia over the years, but the current vandalism being conducted by a user named Tarc is among the worst. In a nutshell, Tarc is attempting to delete the Wikipedia pages of challenger candidates for US House of Representatives seats. This includes, Michael Faulker (R) running in NY-15 Jim Meffert [...]
As election day nears, edits to candidate’s Wikipedia pages are reaching a fevered pitch. As of today Tom Emmer’s Wikipedia page has been semi-protected, which means that anonymous (or, at least unregistered) users can no longer make edits to the page. This step was taken after an anonymous user kept editing in content that other [...]
Here’s an example of Wikipedia at its worst and best. First, someone using a Minnetonka based Comcast account (rather than a username or real name) decided to wipe out all of the content on Tom Emmer’s Wikipedia page: Reason? “Campaign literature. Not factual.” While I agree that some of the content did read like campaign [...]
It looks like a slumlord, group of slumlords, or some sort of pro-slumlord group in New York has been paying workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to make “grassroots” calls in opposition to a bill in the NY State Senate. This is a really disgusting use of cheap labor to deceive elected officials. Carter Cole [...]
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If you laid every story that’s been written about Wikipedia’s content being of questionable accuracy end to end, how many times would those stories circle the Earth? I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find that data somewhere on Wikipedia. Rather than writing yet another article on the subject of Wikipedia’s inaccuracy – [...]
