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Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fans of Sarah Palin were found to be changing the article on Paul Revere to make it fit their idol's view that Paul Revere was not warning the American colonists that the British were coming, but rather warning the British were not 'going to taking away our [guns]'."

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  1. Hilariously orwellian by Nimatek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Unfortunately those fans don't seem to read books. The 1984 parallel of editing the past to fit the political 'truth' of the moment is lost on them.

  2. i've only been around for 23 years.... by metalmaster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have politics ever really focused on social issues, rather than the people(be they bonehead or genius) who support or dismiss them?

  3. Re:Palin was right by harl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's a flat out lie. Paul Revere's own words contradict your position.

    She said "warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms"

    Paul Revere said, from his letter describing it, "there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up."

    In her case she has him with a specific agenda and message. Paul's own account lists no such message nor agenda.

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  4. This is not a Palin fan. It's an anti-Palin troll by Jiro · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Look at the contributions of this user. He describes the Revere comment as Palin's "gaffe". Clearly he does not actually think that Palin's comment was true. He put it on Paul Revere's page because he decided to have a few laughs at the expense of Palin by abusing the reliable sources policy (by claiming that since Palin said it, Wikipedia has to, under its reliable sources policy, treat it as truthful). There were other people who did mistake him for being serious, but he himself carefully worded his comments in the talk page; he didn't say Palin's remark was true; he said that it needed to be put in as a reliable source.

    The idea that this was put there by some guy who's a fan of Palin and (presumably) is stupid enough to think the statement was correct, is wrong. This was an anti-Palin troll, put there by Wikipedia editor who most probably is anti-Palin, and at a minimum was certainly aware, by his own words, that Palin's statement was a gaffe.