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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. Wiki battlers not much different from slashdot mod by ugmoe · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I posted 2 somewhat interesting entries from the Wiki mentioned in this Slashdot story, and both were moderated -1 overrated from their starting value.

    Seems like some slashdotters may also be wiki battlers.

    One from the Bush wiki entry http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12926 0&cid=10782164

    "George Bush'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. "

    One from the Kerry wiki entry http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12926 0&cid=10782206

    Without Wiki, most people would never know that John Kerry's grandfather was the chairman of the United Negro College Fund.