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Is Wikipedia lying?
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:36 pmby Anark
It says Judi Dench died today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_DenchNothing on BBC News though.
Truth or vandalism?
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
Posted:
Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:38 pmby Mictheslik
Vandalism....theyve cleared it up now.....its incredible it managed to get past the stringent screening measures they have on that site.
.Mic
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:40 pmby EGNX
Have you been smoking the good stuff? :-? Where the hells it say that?
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:58 pmby Anark
There.
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:18 pmby BAW0343
You can post anything on that site without trouble for a little while. However if they find it they trace your IP i believe. For fun I edited a page and added something totally random, just to see if it would let me. I deleted it before anyone whould notice however.
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:49 pmby Jakemaster
My friend edited an article on 'greatness' once to basically praise himself. It stayed up there for 5 hours before being removed
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:33 pmby Mythical
they put up lies about my hometown on there, I edited it and then the next day is was back to the way it was...
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:50 amby expat
Someone edited the James Bond entry a while back. The day that Danial Craig was appointed the role, some die hard Bondy entered this date as Bonds death. It stayed up long enough for the news to get hold of it.
Matt
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:54 amby cspyro21
I remember once a story my brother told me when he got home from college. His class has to write an article on something or someone (can't remember what though), and he and his friends knew that a lot of people would just copy and paste information from Wikipedia. My brother's friend went onto Wikipedia and edited the article on the subject they needed to write on (e.g. added things in paragraphs like "he also had a big nose" and "he liked to wear a tutu", stupid things like that), knowing that people would copy that over.
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:52 amby Flt.Lt.Andrew
Lying implies malicious intent.....
A.
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:59 amby Hai Perso Coyone?
LOL..I put myself up...Deletion in 5 minutes
:-/
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:19 pmby C
Still there now...
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:47 pmby Woodlouse2002
Doesn't appear to be there any more though.
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:05 pmby C
Doesn't appear to be there any more though.
I think some pilchard's being an idiot. The page isn't loading at all now...
Oh, now it is...
Re: Is Wikipedia lying?
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:00 pmby Anark
Somebody has changed it to the 3rd now :-/
I'll fix it back.