[WikiEN-l] Colbert on the loose

MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 11:33:12 UTC 2006


Surely we can have a bot spider pages or dumps for triplet elephant
references?

On 8/29/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Just removed another tripling elephant population reference at
> [[Queenie (elephant)]], which had apparently been there for 2 weeks. I
> wonder how many more of these there are.
>
> Even more alarmingly,
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=elephant%20population%20triple%20site%3Aen.wikipedia.org
> shows quite a few of these joke references have made their way into
> Google's cache.
>
> Ok, the current example is trivial, but maybe we need some sort of
> organised response to these kind of attacks, which will presumably
> become more common. What if an organised group starting planting
> "George Bush is dead" all over the place or something...
>
> Steve
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