[WikiEN-l] CNN: Campaign manager resigns amid Wikipedia flap

[geni]

On 4/27/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/27/06, Michael Lindeen <wikikitty at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes. And as we get larger and more prominent, this will become more
> > common, not less. Mike
> >
> > On 4/27/06, Pete Bartlett <pcb21 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > The campaign manager of a candidate in the Georgia (*)
> > > gubernatorial election has resigned after someone in his
> > > office changed the bio of her opponent.
> > >
> > > Full story at:
> > > http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/cox.wikipedia/
> > >
> > > Another reminder to us and our fellow editors of the huge
> > > responsibilty we all bear these days to edit well.
> > >
>
>
> I'm assuming that the reporter got this wrong: "The resignation came after
> Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales confirmed that the addition to the biography
> came from an IP address affiliated with the Cox campaign."
>
> Because if that's true, it's kind of a lame move.

The person makeing the edit wasn't logged in so anyone could run a whois.

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geni