[WikiEN-l] Undetected Vandalism from a single IP

[David Alexander Russell]

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She was doing her job - investigating whether Wikipedia's
counter-vandalism procedures were robust enough. Clearly in several of
her tests they were not. This is no different from reporters from 'The
Sun' (a gutter tabloid here in the UK) into Sandhurst Military Academy
to prove how crap security is.

Cynical

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 4/4/06, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> After 4 days, she removed her vandalism that was uncorrected until
>> then. The article reads "Not corrected within a week" or something
>> like that.
> 
> Pity that people who do this sort of things can't actually help the
> project, or point out existing vandalism or something, rather than
> simply violating [[WP:POINT]]. I can understand where they're coming
> from, but it's like pissing in front of a police station to see if you
> get away with it. Even if you do, it still reeks of piss.
> 
> Steve
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