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Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update]

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the waiting-for-an-arbitrary-smackdown dept.

There has been quite a bit of recent reporting on the recent troubles between Wikipedia and certain Congressional staffers. In response, abdulzis mentions that "an RFC, Wikipedia's mediation method to deal with 'disharmonious users', has been opened to take action against US Congressional staffers who repeatedly blank content and engage in revert wars and slanderous or libelous behavior which violates Wikiepdia code. The IP ranges of US Congress have been currently blocked, but only for a week until the issue can be addressed more directly."

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  1. Oh, the irony. by bigtallmofo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Quite honestly, I move to give literacy tests before giving voting privelidges...

    Just so long as one doesn't require spelling tests before giving commenting privileges.

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    I'm a big tall mofo.
  2. Surfing USA by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    The IP ranges of US Congress have been currently blocked, but only for a week until the issue can be addressed more directly.

    Well, for a week at least they'll have to work -- rather than just out their surfing the web.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."