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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. This is why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wikipedia needs to be globally banned permanently.

  2. At least they have adequate legal representation.. by Anti-Trend · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...on the matter. :-) On topic, this man is clearly an egotistical idiot. Most people would just try to get it worked out with Wikipedia (get the info corrected / removed), or failing that, just shrug something like this off. However, the fact that he's suing about it (how utterly infantile) is counter-productive to his goal: to not look like an ass in front of the Internet-using world. Well, congratulations "Fuz", I had no idea who you were until today. But now that you're suing somebody over a wiki entry, now I know you're an idiot.

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  3. mod 3own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fellow travellers? Prima donnas, and Ha BSD box that

  4. Re:So what's the story? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I keep trying to add a paragraph to Wikipedia about Fuzzy Zoeller being a whiny little bitch but i cant get Tor to use a good IP address.. oh well.

  5. Re:So did he actually say that stuff by hobo+sapiens · · Score: 0, Troll

    mu!

    Naw, who are we kidding? He beats the HELL out of her!

    Sue me now, Fuzzy!

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  6. Re:this shows lack of understanding by swordgeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    a) That shouldn't have to matter to him.
    b) That is why Wikipedia is a cute experiment that has outgrown its lifespan.

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  7. Re:Wikipedia never looses anything by Jello+B. · · Score: 0, Troll

    A Wikibook administrator should know that the software is called MediaWiki.

  8. Re:This is why: Hey, lighten up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey modulateur! Maybe this is teh humor (humour for you brits)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/humor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/humour for you brits)

    Or maybe we all really should firebomb the golfers home and kill his/her pet...

  9. Re:So did he actually say that stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shut up, nigger. Get over yourself. Something as trivial as making a remark that could be interpreted as racist is perfectly excusable.