I've started trawling through our 117 articles which contain the term "June 31" with a view to loading it as a Botlaf search. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Botlaf/June_31
I've already found the very wonderful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_Stomping_Day
And my suspicions have been aroused by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie_von_Rauch 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@gmail.com wrote:
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
-- -Ian Woollard