[WikiEN-l] Abbott caught altering entries to Wikipedia

Jay Litwyn brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Fri Jul 31 06:57:05 UTC 2009


"Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:a4359dff0905231300l62f6e442m749aeec5cbb25bbe at mail.gmail.com...
> 2009/5/23 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
>> I suppose this is old news:
>>
>> http://www.brandweeknrx.com/2007/08/abbott-caught-a.html
>
> "August 30, 2007"
>
> Yeah, I'd say that's old news...

I can almost see a whack-a-mole problem happening if we tried to control it, 
say by listing IP#s by default on edits to commercial interests. Then they 
would just do the suppresion through remote access to their home computer.
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http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ I should check that out. Maybe a link to it 
should go on commercial interests.






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