There's a bit of attention around our US 2008 presidential election candidates already. Apparently people are noticing that for some of them, their Wikipedia article ranks higher than their own website ...
Could those of you attracted to keeping living bios usable please keep a close eye on the following?
The list I have (from the article series box) of all prospective or possible candidates is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton_presidential_campaign%2C... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dodd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign%2C_2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Richardson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Cox (deletion nomination ... yay) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani_presidential_campaign%2C_2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Hunter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_presidential_campaign%2C_2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Charles_Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gilmore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Savage_%28commentator%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kubby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Parker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Phillies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Stanhope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koch_%28candidate%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moriarty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schriner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Weltman
Here's hoping the list is winnowed down over the ... next two years.
- d.
on 2/27/07 3:20 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
There's a bit of attention around our US 2008 presidential election candidates already. Apparently people are noticing that for some of them, their Wikipedia article ranks higher than their own website ...
I just this minute saw this in a report on CNN regarding Wikipedia's prominence in this.
Marc
On 2/27/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 2/27/07 3:20 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
There's a bit of attention around our US 2008 presidential election candidates already. Apparently people are noticing that for some of them, their Wikipedia article ranks higher than their own website ...
I just this minute saw this in a report on CNN regarding Wikipedia's prominence in this.
Marc
Oh fec. I've been through them and cleared out all the lead unfree images for now.
On 27/02/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 2/27/07 3:20 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
There's a bit of attention around our US 2008 presidential election candidates already. Apparently people are noticing that for some of them, their Wikipedia article ranks higher than their own website ...
I just this minute saw this in a report on CNN regarding Wikipedia's prominence in this.
See, we got a heads-up on the report this time ;-)
Can't see the story online yet...
on 2/27/07 3:20 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
There's a bit of attention around our US 2008 presidential election candidates already. Apparently people are noticing that for some of them, their Wikipedia article ranks higher than their own website ...
On 27/02/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I just this minute saw this in a report on CNN regarding Wikipedia's prominence in this.
on 2/27/07 5:48 PM, Andrew Gray at shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
See, we got a heads-up on the report this time ;-)
Can't see the story online yet...
It ran on "The Situation Room" segment, if that helps.
Marc Riddell