5614 Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4695376.stm An inquiry was launched after staff for Democratic representative Marty Meehan admitted polishing his biography [and'] computers traced to Capitol Hill removed unpalatable facts from articles on senators, while other entries were "vandalised", the site said. Wikipedia is a great site, but this kind of thing is the only possible fault.
AzurePhoenix Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 I wouldn't be surprised if politicians soon started to hire people whose only purpose would be to monitor and nudge their wiki articles, or even entries about policies and such that might concern them.
Sisyphus Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18247
ecoli Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 Unfortunately, this is perfectly accpetable, according to Wikipedia's own policy.
Pangloss Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Thread closed. As noted above, we already had a thread on this, which may be found here: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18247
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