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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia
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In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded Southern writer with a taste for the Gothic and absurd.



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The Joy
How scandalous! ohmy.gif

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Edit: Jon or Selina, if you're around, would you please move this to the "Highlighted for Posterity" subforum? Thanks!
Michaeldsuarez
QUOTE(The Joy @ Sat 18th May 2013, 3:40am) *

How scandalous! ohmy.gif

( wink.gif laugh.gif )

Edit: Jon or Selina, if you're around, would you please move this to the "Highlighted for Posterity" subforum? Thanks!


Careful. It mentions the site that can't be mentioned. The other site is doing all the things that we should be doing. Selina, can we please retore this forum to what it once was?
Retrospect
QUOTE(Michaeldsuarez @ Mon 20th May 2013, 3:03am) *

Selina, can we please retore this forum to what it once was?

+1

Selina, it's easy enough. Throw out the fuckwits and get a couple of sensible people to be staff and moderators.

Pretty please with bells on?
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