G'day Michael S, The Jack Thompson OFFICE action was an incident that occurred not too long ago. Some background (I don't know if you already know this stuff, so bear with me if you do): the American Jack Thompson is a professional lawyer and talented amateur wowser, famous amongst a small subset of gamers. The reason he's well-known to hardcore gamers is because the target of his wowserism is violent video games. Since hardcore gamers typically enjoy playing violent video games above all else[0], this is not a match made in heaven by any means. Through a curious quirk of the Internet, hardcore gamers are far more likely to contribute Wikipedia than American attorneys. In particular, strange though it sounds, hardcore gamers are far more likely to contribute to an article about Mr Thompson full of such improperly sourced, utterly trivial, and of course totally biased nonsense that the only reason I can't describe it as a "hatchet job" is because the phrase "embarrassment to Wikipedia" leaps far more readily to the tongue. When the Secret Wikipedia Puppet Government, aided by the Men In Black, finally pulled the plug on this hatch--excuse me, this embarrassment to Wikipedia, a thousand thousand gamers rose up in complaint. "That asshole Thompson wins again!", they cried. "Wikipedia under the control of a Secret Wikipedia Puppet Government, aided by the Men in Black!", they cried. "I credit my 'blog. That's enough for me to argue that Thompson is a Satanist, right?", they cried. "Ow, I just stood up for the first time in seventy-two hours and my knee joints cracked!", they cried. This seems to me a good case of "jury nullification": we asked for an opinion, we got utter bollocks in return, we said, "actually, let's not do what they said after all." [0] Although I know a few people who obsess over Transport Tycoon or Championship Manager, and there's even a few Tetris tragics out there. -- Mark Gallagher "What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!" - Danger Mouse