The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry

Timothy found a profile in The New Republic of Jonathan Schilling, a 53-year-old software developer from New Jersey who works to keep Hillary Clinton's Wikipedia entry clean and fair throughout the election season. "After he started editing her page in June 2005, Schilling became consumed with trying to capture her uncomfortable place in American culture, researching and writing a whole section on how she polarizes the public... [T]he attacks on Hillary's page mainly take the form of crude vandalism... It's different on Obama's page, where the fans — no surprise — are more enthusiastic, the haters are more intelligent, and the arguments reflect the fact that Obama himself is still a work under construction... The bitterness of the fights on Obama's page could be taken as a bad sign for the candidate. But it may actually be Hillary's page that contains the more troubling omens. Few, if any, Hillary defenders are standing watch besides Schilling. In recent days, the vaguely deserted air of a de-gentrifying neighborhood has settled over her page..."

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Original research?

[grimJester]

"researching and writing a whole section"

There's a rule against original research on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia, beacon of literacy

[192939495969798999]

Makes sense... if anyone goes to Wikipedia and sees "Hillary iz dumb!!!LOL1BBQ", we know that her official campaign stance is that she's dumb!!!1LOLBBQ

Re:"The Man" who guards clinton's wiki

[Flaming Babies]

Maybe I should RTFA instead of just the comments. I thought that Bellwether was the one being given credit...

Well, as long as we're bringing fictional characte

[FreeUser]

Allow me to one-up your one-up. There was some serious personal war going on between Cain and Abel in the election for Best Shepard in the Early Universe.

Well, if we're going to start including fictional characters rather than historical figures, I'll do you one better. The mud slinging between Suaron the Deceiver and Gandolf the Grey was hard to beat...

Re:Losing my faith in politics

[Foobar of Borg]

He then went on to note that we've had soldiers in Germany, Italy, Britain, Japan, South Korea and other places for over 50 years. If you are going to bitch about American soldiers being station over seas, you should start with these places where US forces have been stationed over 10X longer.

Why can't we bitch about all of them? The South Koreans (at least all the ones I know) don't want us in South Korea. The Japanese don't want us in Okinawa (soldiers habitually raping 12 year-old girls might have something to do with that). We aren't wanted in the Philippines (again, gang-raping women while sporting a large array of weaponry might make us less than welcome there). I imagine the Germans would like us to leave straight away. Where else do we have bases? I can't seem to keep up with all of them. But we aren't wanted any of those places either.

Of course, one difference between all of those places and Iraq is that we are actually blowing the shit out of Iraq. That might make for a greater sense of urgency, don't you think?

Re:Self-appointed dictator?

[Yogi_Stewart_4]

How? Care to give a reason? Or are you one of the Hitlary bandwagoners who just "know it in their hearts" that Hil knows best. (and everyone else is no good)