[WikiEN-l] Doctored Wikipedia article read out on air by conservative talk show host

Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 02:07:33 UTC 2006


Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Interesting allegation. Supposedly the scenario is that some political
> extremist edited a Wikipedia page about the Center for Constitutional
> Rights so as to contain slanted editorial from a political website
> opposed to that organisation, then he or another person later read out
> on air, word for word, the contents of the resulting article, preceded
> by the words "This is according to the Wikipedia free encyclopedia on
> the Web. OK? I didn't make this up."
> 
> http://wikipediareview.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1137542140
> 
> The edit is there, and there is a link to a political blog site
> purporting to contain a sound recording from the broadcast.
> 

I presume you have deleted the revision(s) in question and indefinately
blocked the SOB for libel, slander and trolling?

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