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Mayor of Florence Sues Wikipedia

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the vote-quimby dept.

ZioBit writes "Florence Mayor Leonardo Domenici and one of the city assessors are suing (Google translation) Wikipedia on the basis of a (possible) defamation regarding the handling of public parkings assignation to a private company, "Florence Parking". The apparent problem is that both of their wives are members of the board of directors of "Florence Parking", and Wikipedia is reporting it."

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  1. Added in about 20 mins time: by James_Duncan8181 · · Score: 5, Funny

    * Domenici also recently launched a widely castigated suit against Wikipedia Foundation.

    Nice work on drawing attention to the original problems also...it's always amusing how much political types don't get it.

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    1. Re:Added in about 20 mins time: by NatasRevol · · Score: 4, Funny

      Citation, or it never happened!

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    2. Re:Added in about 20 mins time: by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

      Someone needs to get a translation of the Streisand Effect for them ASAP.

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  2. oh my god! by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to Wikipedia, this guy is a total douchebag! *edit* *edit*

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  3. Re:Florence. where ? by david@ecsd.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    You preview the thing five times yet just as you hit the 'Submit' button you notice that you've written 'Crafications' instead of 'Clarifications'


    That's okay, I just figured you were from Beijing, China.
  4. Re:Defense by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firstly, these exceptions are narrow and not relevant to this discussion, bringing them up is immature pedantry.

    Without immature pedantry, every Slashdot story would have, at most, 5 posts.

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