[WikiEN-l] Rod Liddle, Spectator, on his Wikipedia article

[Carcharoth]

On reflection, there is lots of vandalism to that talk page, and it
doesn't match Liddle's description of what he claims to have added.
i.e. Unless he gives more details, he is almost certainly having us on
here. But doing so in a magazine article like that without providing a
link that would demonstrate the truth of what he is saying just shows
how little he understands how a wiki works.

Carcharoth

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/147.252.90.42
>
> Dublin Institute of Technology, apparently.
>
> Carcharoth
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe he hit preview and never saved the edits? :-)
>> Or he edited the wrong article (you never know, it could be that simple).
>> Ask him if he knows what "preview" and "diff" means.
>>
>> Hmm. What was the date of all this again?
>>
>> I've found vandalism on the *talk* page:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Cristiano_Ronaldo&diff=281261008&oldid=281162798
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Cristiano_Ronaldo&diff=281261088&oldid=281261008
>>
>> Surely it couldn't be that simple?
>>
>> Carcharoth
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Charles Matthews
>> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> Update on the farrago. Apparently they printed my letter in the 25 April
>>> edition of The Spectator.
>>>
>>> Liddle responds:
>>>
>>> http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/3573521/part_2/letters.thtml
>>>
>>> Spectator readers respond to recent articles
>>>
>>> I did foul Ronaldo
>>>
>>> Sir: Let me assure Charles Matthews (Letters, 25 April) that I most
>>> certainly vandalised Cristiano Ronaldo’s Wikipedia page — on not one but
>>> two occasions. This would suggest that the site’s ‘history’ section is
>>> every bit as inaccurate as every other part of Wikipedia. It’s fun, but
>>> most people would be advised to trust it about as far as they would a
>>> press statement from Derek Draper.
>>>
>>> Rod Liddle
>>> Marlborough, Wiltshire
>>>
>>> My comment (placed onsite, may not get past moderation):
>>>
>>> Rod, you don't convince. What you wrote can be checked. Article
>>> histories log all edits: it's a database, that's what the software does,
>>> no inaccuracies. Ask someone under 30. The odd thing is that journos
>>> wishing to convince the gullible that "the Internet" has intrinsic "low
>>> standards" tend to fall into this trap of making confident, wild claims
>>> (cf. Giles Hattersley of The Sunday Times); if you don't actually
>>> understand the medium yet, try not writing about it. Adopting perceived
>>> lazy standards as your own, where convenient, used to be called "going
>>> native", in the old days.
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
>>>
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