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Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-an-edit-war dept.

hcs_$reboot writes "A French court ordered a company to pay 25,000 Euros to a competitor about which she had removed the name of a Wikipedia entry dedicated to her field. Hi-Media, the defendant, was identified thanks to her IP address found from the Wikipedia page."

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  1. Re:That's a bit presumptuous by mysidia · · Score: 1, Interesting

    since they're the ones whose terms of service were violated by the malicious edits

    You assume the edits were malicious, and they weren't actually removing a relatively unknown non-notable Micropayments company from a list of 'notable micropayment companies'

    Or claiming such in good faith

    The Wiki was working as it should be; if the company actually was notable, there should have been no problem simply reverting the edit.

    Sounds like an attempt to use the courts to make an end-run around Wikipedia policy and editor consensus

  2. Re:Horribly Summary by Culture20 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anglophones really hate using "it" to refer to people, thus you end up with "he/she needs to eat his/her food", instead of "it needs to eat its food"

    Most Americans use "they" instead of he/she, since he-she is sometimes used to refer to a transvestite. It's odd when you stop to think about using a plural for a singular pronoun of indeterminant gender, but it's better than it or he/she.