[WikiEN-l] Telegraph (UK) - MPs editing their articles

[Carcharoth]

Interesting article. I am disappointed though that it didn't say that
people who have articles written about them *are* encouraged to raise
concerns on the talk page or via OTRS (the volunteer response team).
Some of these claims may be magnified, given excessive weight, or
details of later aspects of the story omitted (e.g. another newspaper
may have provided a different view on some of the stories).

You have to remember that the Daily Telegraph, as the newspaper that
published the expenses scandal details (and maybe some of the other
stories as well), is not entirely unbiased in this itself. It has an
interest in some of these stories retaining a high profile.

The expenses scandal cover-up story (linked from the article you
linked to) is here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/7696484/MPs-accused-of-Wikipedia-expenses-cover-up.html

Carcharoth

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:55 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7883064/MPs-scandals-covered-up-on-Wikipedia.html
>
> Nothing unusual and nothing saying we've erred in any way,
> surprisingly and pleasingly - they put blame strictly on those making
> the changes.
>
> Last two paras:
>
> "There are no rules preventing staff at the Houses of Parliament from
> changing Wikipedia entries. The parliamentary IT policy warns users
> not to create material which could be "threatening, slanderous,
> abusive, indecent, obscene, racist, illegal or offensive".
>
> "Wikipedia's own rules of conduct discourage editing by individuals
> with a "conflict of interest" – which would include the MPs
> themselves, their staff and family members."
>
> I could ask for little ways it could be better, but I can't see
> anything wrong with this article.
>
>
> - d.
>
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