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Golfer Sues Over Vandalized Wikipedia Entry

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the setting-the-record-straight dept.

coondoggie writes "Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing to track down the author of what Zoeller says is a defamatory paragraph about him on the Wikipedia site. In an Associated Press story Zoeller's attorney, Scott Sheftall, said he filed a lawsuit against a Miami firm last week because the law won't allow him to sue Wikipedia."

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  1. Re:Wikipedia never looses anything by krischik · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interesting point. However, there are several resons why not:

    1) Page-Name typos - why keep them online?
    2) SPAM
    3) Illegal content
    4) Unwanded content - Each wikipedia project has a mission and will not accept content which is utside scope.

    If you disagree in a particular case you can file a "vote for undelete" and ask the adminstrators to make the content available.

    Martin