On 18/09/2010, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
If Limbaugh or those working for him had perpetrated
the hoax, they
wouldn't have put "June 31" as the date. What we can learn from this
is setting up edit filters (if there are enough edits like this to
justify it) to catch fake dates. Such edit filters may already exist.
Edit filters would be self defeating, the people doing it would see it
and deliberately change the dates to a valid one.
Failing that, we can search the live text for other
fake (or mis-typed
as impossible) dates that are in articles at the moment.
That sounds like a much better idea, leaving brickbats around the
place for bad guys to trip over isn't stupid at all.
Carcharoth
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-Ian Woollard