On 30/12/2007, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Not really a WikiEn topic, but the number of things gone 'horribly wrong' is only meaningful if you can compare it to the number of 'horribly wrong' things averted.
After many edits from CIA internet address ranges showed up on the WikiScanner, a spokesman said, "I'd like in any case to underscore a far larger and more significant point that no one should doubt or forget: The CIA has a vital mission in protecting the United States, and the focus of this agency is there, on that decisive work." When we pointed out that CIA editors had in fact been concentrating on querulous Buffy The Vampire Slayer trivia, he said he'd get back to us.
- d.