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Wikipedia Infiltrated by Intelligence Agents?
An anonymous reader writes "International Humanitarian Law professor Ludwig Braeckeleer thinks so. In an article published yesterday in the Korean newspaper OhMyNews, he reveals a discovery he made while researching a story on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland. It turns out that a Wikipedia administrator named SlimVirgin is actually Linda Mack, a woman who as a young graduate in the 1980s was hired by investigative reporter Pierre Salinger of ABC News to help with the investigation. Salinger later came to believe that Mack was actually working for Britain's MI5 on a mission to investigate the bombing and to infiltrate and monitor the news agency. Shortly after her Wikipedia identity was uncovered, many of her edits to articles related to the bombing were permanently removed from the database in an attempt to conceal her identity. This discovery comes only months after another Wikipedia admin was caught lying about his credentials to the press. What can Wikipedia do about those who would use it for their own purposes?"
Does that mean that someone with a centcom.mil address didn't edited wikipedia? No of course not. But then again, why shouldn't some soldier edit wikipedia? It's open to everyone.
Now reading your edits, it makes me wonder why you have a bug up your ass about this, because the sections removed had to do with unverifyable assertions, namely that 300-400 people were killed even though bodies weren't found where they were reportedly buried. Since this unverifyable, it should not appear in wikipedia, as per wikipedia standards. If you want it there, verify it. Find those bodies. But just because you want it to be true, doesn't make it so, and doesn't entitle it to be there.
It is interesting thing note that, Josh Rushing, the Marine public relations officer, now works for Al Jazeera English. In the mid-1990s, I got a strange SNMP request from an army intelligence outfit in Quantico, Virginia after reading Australian web sites which discussed possible CIA involvement in overthrowing Australia's government in the 1970's (the Whitlam/Kerr thing). Yeah yeah. The Man thinks you're a grave threat.
Hate to bust bubble, but contrary to what you mom told you, no one gives a shit about you because you're just not special.