Harry Willis wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191474/Labour-councillor-David-Boo throyd-caught-altering-David-Camerons-Wikipedia-entry.html
(Not sure "forced to resign" is accurate, given the text of his resignation letter.)
The story is bad news all round, for us. Here's what else is wrong with the Mail's coverage, though:
- "malicious tampering"
Handily assumes what it sets out to prove.
- "Any Internet user can alter pages but Wikipedia appoints supposedly impartial and unpaid moderators to review and correct changes."
Total myth.
- "sock-puppeting - using multiple, bogus online identities to create an illusion of support or unpopularity for a person or organisation."
"Bogus" is misleading journalese. "Pseudonymous", please. And they have mixed in the definition astroturfing.
- "Wikimedia UK, the British arm of the U.S. company"
Wrong.
Charles