I've started trawling through our 117 articles which contain the term
"June 31" with a view to loading it as a Botlaf search.
which has been up since
2006.
Plus I've fixed a typo of July 31 and removed an unsourced DOB
WereSpielChequers
On 18 September 2010 14:50, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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