On 18/09/2010, Carcharoth carcharothwp@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