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

[Andrew Gray]

On 27/04/06, David Boothroyd <david at election.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm suffering from the opposite problem right now, as an elected
> local councillor (up for re-election in a week's time incidentally).
> Because I have a biographical article, editors that dislike my edits
> have been known to draw attention to it and assume that my editing
> must be biased. Worse, some have recently taken to directly
> threatening to make a political issue of it.
>
> I don't expect this actually to happen soon, but it seems to me that
> it's a form of harassment and a personal attack.

Huh. The last edits to that page were someone tagging it {{delete}}...
and that someone being a Conservative councillor in Wycombe who was
tagging the articles of all other local councillors!

Oh, the amusement.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk