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•Wikipedia sentinel quits after 'sock-puppeting' scandal
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
By Jamie Welham and Nina Lakhani A Wikipedia adminstrator has been busted sock-puppeting - creating multiple identities for his own means. A "guardian of the truth" on Wikipedia, the global internet encyclopedia, has been caught up in an embarrassing ...

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•Sockpuppeting Wikipedia'Sentinel' Forced To Quit
Digitaltrends.com, OR
A Wikipedia 'guardian of truth' has been forced to quit after it's revealed he had multiple online IDs to change entries on the site. David Boothroyd, a Labour council member from London, England, who was also a member of Wikipedia's Arbitration ...

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•Labour leader caught altering Wikipedia entry
Sify, India
London: Labour councillor David Boothroyd is in trouble after he has been exposed for changing Tory leader David Cameron's entry in Wikipedia, reports Mail Online. Boothroyd used a false name as he made regular alterations to Cameron's page. ...

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