Esperanza Spalding Wins “Best New Artist†Grammy : Wikipedia Page Immediately HackedRiverfront TimesThe 2011 Grammy Awards are still going strong, two and a half hours into the broadcast. …
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Justin Bieber fans attack Esperanza Spaulding's [b]Wikipedia page[/b]Ear SuckerIf you were like me, then you thought teen singing sensation Justin Bieber was a shoe-in for the Best New
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Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Page Attacked After Grammy Win Over Justin Bieber[/b]Hollywood ReporterThe jazz artist's page was altered to make her middle name "Justin," while another edit read that she won even though "no one has heard of her.
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Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Page Attacked by Justin Bieber Fans?[/b]CBS NewsEsperanza Spalding poses with her award during the 53nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 13, 2011. NEW YORK (CBS) It seems that fans of Justin
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Rabid Bieber Fans Attack Grammy Rival on [b]Wikipedia[/b]Newser(Newser) – Fear the Bieber! Or at least the wrath of Justin Bieber fans—especially if you had the misfortune to beat the young
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Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Page Attacked By Justin Bieber Fans[/b]MTV.comBeware the wrath of a Justin Bieber fan scorned. After the 16-year-old phenom — and, for that matter, Drake, Florence and the Machine and Mumford & Sons
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Upset Bieber Fans Attack Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Profile[/b]Starpulse.comAngry Justin Bieber fans attacked an online biography about Esperanza Spalding on Sunday after the jazz performer beat the Baby hitmaker to the Grammy Award
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Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Page Attacked By Justin Bieber Fans[/b]TheCelebrityCafe.comJustin Bieber fans decided to take out their anger over Bieber not winning the Best New Artist Award at last night's Grammys on Esperanza Spalding's
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Esperanza Spalding [b]Wikipedia Page Hacked by Angry Bieber Fans![/b]TwirlitBy AAyles on February 14th, 2011 Esperanza Spalding may have won the 2011 Grammy for Best New Artist during last night's event but her night wasn't all
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Justin Bieber fans attack Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia page following his ...[/b]New York PostAfter the 16-year-old singer lost the Best New Artist category to the little-known Esperanza Spalding at the Grammys on Sunday night, Justin Bieber fans
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Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Entry Attacked After Best New Artist Grammy[/b]TheWrapIf you went on Wikipedia to find out who Esperanza Spalding was after her Grammy win, we may need to clear up a few things.
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Justin Bieber Fans Vandalize [b]Wikipedia; Lada Gaga's Egg Upstaged by Rihanna's ...[/b]ReelzChannel.comAfter jazz singer Esperanza Spalding won Best New Artist at last night's Grammy Awards, Justin Bieber fans took their outrage out on Spalding's Wikipedia
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Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia page unites Justin Bieber fans <i>and</i ...[/b]Zap2it.com (blog)Hell hath no fury like some Bieber fans scorned (or the Bieber haters, who are just about as obsessed with him as the fans are).
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Angry Justin Bieber fans hack Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia page[/b]WTAM.com(Reuters) - Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber was too busy arranging a Paris rendezvous with his mentor, R&B star Usher, to worry too much about leaving the
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Bieber Fans Make Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia 'Pay' for Grammy Upset[/b]SwitchedA hormonally charged group of Justin Bieber acolytes stormed the Internet last night, high on puberty and
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Revenge of the Bieberites: Bieber Fans Sabotage Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia ...[/b]TIMEEveryone should know by now that you can't cross Bieber without feeling the wrath of his fans. After jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding won the
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Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Page Suffers Scathing Attack From Justin Bieber ...[/b]New York MagazineLast night, in a major upset, the jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding beat out Justin Bieber (plus a few other acts) for the Best New Artist Grammy.
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I looked through the edits between the time she won the Grammy and the time the page was locked. It's about an even split between Bieberites and anti-Bieberites, with the anti-Bieberites getting their licks in early and the pro-Bieberites coming in later. The media coverage is, as usual, misleading and stupid.
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Justin Bieber Fans Attack Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Page[/b]Allie Is WiredIf you were shocked at Justin Bieber's loss of the Best New Artist award, then you weren't alone. Fans rushed to winner Esperanza Spalding's Wikipedia page
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Spalding's biography also got a makeover, appended with "SHE IS F****** REATARD THAT NO ONE HAS HEARD OF SO B**** PLEASE DIE !"
In the section on Spalding's collaborations with other jazz artists, one Bieber fan added, "She now has the 2011 Grammy for being the Best new Artist! Even though no one has ever heard of her! Yay!"
Other Bieber fans edited the page to include messages like "JUSTIN BIEBER DESERVED IT GO DIE IN A HOLE. WHO THE HECK ARE YOU ANYWAY?" and "BIBER 4 LYFE !"
This is all the more ironic because Esperanza Spalding is actually quite talented and musically proficient, unlike the majority of those honored.
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Justin Bieber Fans Attack Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia Page[/b]Paste MagazineThe Grammys provided plenty of surprises last night, one of which being Esperanza Spalding taking home the award for Best New Artist.
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Bieber fans attack Esperanza Spalding on her [b]wikipedia page after Grammy win[/b]Examiner.comThis weekend was a huge one for young pop star sensation Justin Bieber. His movie "Never Say Never" came out Friday, he got to attend the Grammy's,
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It seems unlikely that Wikipedia can feasibly do anything about incidents like this, other than apply some sort of "Flagged Protection"/Flagged Revisions scheme to all BLPs, or at least all BLPs for people who are actually celebrities.
The thing about this kind of media coverage, lame and lazy though it is, is that it snowballs - reporters see that they can make workable stories out of these incidents with near-zero effort, and so they keep making them, because the reward:effort ratio is so high. This is noticed by other reporters, and it becomes a monkey-see-monkey-do situation.
I suppose you could make the argument that these kinds of celebrities are used to this sort of thing, or that Wikipedia is actually less useful as an encyclopedia-like website than it is as a means of determining how angry someone's fans are feeling about some recent incident or other. Even then, one shouldn't generalize about fan reactions - I'm sure there are plenty of Bieberistas who are perfectly happy to see Esperanza Spalding get this particular award, seeing as how Esperanza Spalding is an actual musician, as opposed to being more of a teen marketing phenomenon.
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Bieber fans deface Esperanza Spalding's [b]Wikipedia page after upset Grammy win[/b]Examiner.comJustin Bieber fans defaced the Wikipedia page of the 2011 Grammy Awards Best New Artist winner, Esperanza Spalding, after Bieber failed to win the award.
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