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Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit

Posted by Soulskill on from the citation-needed dept.

New submitter Andreas Kolbe writes: "Businessman, philanthropist and musician Yank Barry and the Global Village Champions Foundation are suing four Wikipedia editors for defamation, claiming they have maliciously conspired to keep Barry's Wikipedia biography unduly negative. The Daily Dot article includes a copy of the legal brief and quotes Barry as saying, "My page was so ridiculously false and made me sound like a terrible person and people believed it causing deals to fall through. I finally had enough."

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  1. Articles about Catholicism are even worse by YA_Python_dev · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Especially in the Italian Wikipedia pretty much any article about the catholic church is written from the point of view of someone that believes in that religion. Edits that try to follow the NPOV (neutral point of view) rule are immediately reverted, any negative information, even when well-referenced, is deleted or hidden in a brief mention inside a long paragraph at the end of an article.

    Unfortunately the people that keep these articles in such bad state seem to have far more free time than the volunteers that want to improve them following the rules, so wikipedia's gradual improvement model fails for these articles about religion.

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  2. Re:Well, this won't backfire! by NotDrWho · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe he should team up with Donald Sterling and form a "Selfless Jews For Just Helping out the Kids" Foundation.

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