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Contrary to what you may have read on Wikipedia, the Popemobile is not fitted with a flux capacitor or laser-guided assault rifles. ...
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"The current Popemobile boasts a Flux-Capacitor, Twin Laser-guided Assault Rifles and and ejector button which (with the aid of Satelights)[sic] can leap him directly back to the Vatican from anywhere in the world,"
In fairness, the vandalism was only up for a minute or two.
I wonder about the coincidence of a British journalist looking for an article, and vandalism from a British IP that gets put up and immediately reverted.
QUOTE(Doc glasgow @ Thu 16th September 2010, 9:28am) 
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"The current Popemobile boasts a Flux-Capacitor, Twin Laser-guided Assault Rifles and and ejector button which (with the aid of Satelights)[sic] can leap him directly back to the Vatican from anywhere in the world,"
In fairness, the vandalism was only up for a minute or two.
I wonder about the coincidence of a British journalist looking for an article, and vandalism from a British IP that gets put up and immediately reverted.
You wouldn't suggest a journalist would create their own news story. Shocking.
This is just the sort of thing that will make the Anglican Ladies Club titter over their tea. No harm done, except to make us wonder why the relevant page hasn't been sprotected in the first place. One supposes that the Wikipedia policy is to let anything Roman-Catholic-related twist in the wind a bit? I mean, now that their admin with the Doctorate in Canon Law is, er, gone.
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Thu 16th September 2010, 5:38pm)
QUOTE(Doc glasgow @ Thu 16th September 2010, 9:28am)
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"The current Popemobile boasts a Flux-Capacitor, Twin Laser-guided Assault Rifles and and ejector button which (with the aid of Satelights)[sic] can leap him directly back to the Vatican from anywhere in the world,"
In fairness, the vandalism was only up for a minute or two.
I wonder about the coincidence of a British journalist looking for an article, and vandalism from a British IP that gets put up and immediately reverted.
You wouldn't suggest a journalist would create their own news story. Shocking.
This is just the sort of thing that will make the Anglican Ladies Club titter over their tea. No harm done, except to make us wonder why the relevant page hasn't been sprotected in the first place. One supposes that the Wikipedia policy is to let anything Roman-Catholic-related twist in the wind a bit? I mean, now that their admin with the Doctorate in Canon Law is, er, gone.
Protect pages like that on a whim and you are hardly "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit"!
Actually, to protect pages like that, where the worst that can happen is some bad PR for Wikipedia, while at the same time you let articles on ordinary people twist in the unwatched wind, would be hypocracy.
Wikipedia ideally should have articles like that unprotected, but vandalism reverted immediately. I'd say, for once, they actually did well here.
If you're going to restrict open editing, start with low-notability BLPs.
QUOTE(Doc glasgow @ Thu 16th September 2010, 9:43am)
If you're going to restrict open editing, start with low-notability BLPs.
They already started with high-notability BLPs. Like Jimbo's. It's nigh notability in his own mind.
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