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The Battle Over Candidates' Wikipedia Entries

Posted by timothy on from the every-american-deserves-free-candy dept.

MrByte420 writes "The New York Times today has a story (stupid reg required) about the particpants of Wikipedia editing Bush and Kerry's entries in the days leading up to the U.S. Elections. With admins locked in philosophical debate over whether to lock the page down, others asked, "Could someone get rid of the middle-finger screen cap that's replaced the image above 'The Bush family watches tee-ball on the White House lawn'?""

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  1. John Kerry's grandfather made a fortune in opium by ugmoe · · Score: 3, Interesting
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry#Family_bac kground

    Without wiki, no one would know that John Kerry's grandfather made a fortune in the opium trade.

    "John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade. "

  2. Re:Bush Sr. was chairman of United Negro College F by mabu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Where's the part where Bush did business with the Nazis? or Prescott helped Hitler rise to power?

  3. Re:Bush Sr. was chairman of United Negro College F by ugmoe · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I read the article you linked to and it contained this quote from the ADL:

    http://www.adl.org/Internet_Rumors/prescott.htm

    The Anti-Defamation League in the US is supportive of Prescott Bush and the Bush family. In a statement last year they said that "rumours about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush ... have circulated widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated ... Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathiser."