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More sly Wikipedia editing

Thursday 30 August 2007, 2:58 pm

The Editor

Categories: Blogosphere, The internet

Tags: AndrewBolt, AndrewLanderyou, IainHall, JeremySear, JohnSurname, TimBlair, Wikipedia, Wikiscanner

Much has been made recently of the website Wikiscanner which allows users to track the Wikipedia edits made by an IP address or range. Australian newspapers this week went nuts over the fact that government employees altered a number of Wikipedia articles, conveniently ignoring the edits made by their own staff.

After a few days of exhaustive research GrodsCorp can reveal the following controversial Wikipedia article edits that have been made by prominent bloggers:

Andrew Bolt
- The Greens (”eat the fetuses they have forcibly aborted from mothers at 26 weeks gestation. Hat tip: Tim Blair“)
- Climate change (”the dinosaurs died out and they didn’t drive cars! Hat tip: Tim Blair)
- David Duchovny (”dude is seriously hott”)

Timmeh Blair
- The Greens (”eat the fetuses they have forcibly aborted from mothers at 26 weeks gestation. Hat tip: Andrew Bolt“)
- Climate change (”the dinosaurs died out and they didn’t drive cars! Hat tip: Andrew Bolt)

MK
- Homosexuality (”something much more meaningful than just a beautiful lifestyle choice”)
- Guns (”for men with small penises”)

Jeremy Sear
- Cats (”rock”)

Andrew Landeryou
- Red Rooster (”pale KFC imitation”)

Mikey
- John Howard (”a truly great man”)

Iain; Hall
- McDonalds (changed article title to “Fine; Scotish; Restuaront”)
- English language (”constentley; Evolveing”)
- Islam (”the one Tru caling;”)

John Surname
- Emo (”the one true calling”)

Have you found any edits made by bloggers that you’d like to add to the list? Leave ‘em in comments.

10 Comments

Teamslanderyou (Thursday 30 August 2007, 4:09 pm) #

YES! We’ve run the folloiwng story titled WHO SCRUBBED “ANDREW LANDERYOU” OF THE TRUTH (part 2)

Hit http://slanderyou2.blogspot.com/ and it will take you there
Andrew Landeryou (Thursday 30 August 2007, 4:16 pm) #

The attacks on KFC are little more than an attack on the Australian way of life.
The Editor (Thursday 30 August 2007, 4:18 pm) #

Stop eating KFC and the terrorists win.
Andrew Landeryou (Thursday 30 August 2007, 4:41 pm) #

Amen, bruvver.
Teamslanderyou (Thursday 30 August 2007, 4:53 pm) #

So, Andy?
Bridgit Gread (Thursday 30 August 2007, 5:07 pm) #

By the looks of Andy he’s been doing more than his fair share for liberty, equality and democracy.
Bruce (Thursday 30 August 2007, 5:16 pm) #

Meh. I’ve only made suggestions for edits in the discussion section on the grounds that I may have a conflict of interest.
John Surname (Thursday 30 August 2007, 5:35 pm) #

Which Canberra Press journo is this?

It’s not hard to work out. Wiki Scanner is fun!
fang (Thursday 30 August 2007, 9:21 pm) #

If I was to edit a wiki page I would make sure to cover my tracks when editing P J Harvey’s page to say that she has the hots for me and she also wrote the song Good Fortune about me.
Mikey (Friday 31 August 2007, 10:10 pm) #

I am a proud Howard Hugger.

Wait.

No I’m not!