[WikiEN-l] “Can you imagine the president of the American Camellia Society having three stuffed bears in the courthouse?”

[Ian Woollard]

On 18/09/2010, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> If Limbaugh or those working for him had perpetrated the hoax, they
> wouldn't have put "June 31" as the date. What we can learn from this
> is setting up edit filters (if there are enough edits like this to
> justify it) to catch fake dates. Such edit filters may already exist.

Edit filters would be self defeating, the people doing it would see it
and deliberately change the dates to a valid one.

> Failing that, we can search the live text for other fake (or mis-typed
> as impossible) dates that are in articles at the moment.

That sounds like a much better idea, leaving brickbats around the
place for bad guys to trip over isn't stupid at all.

> Carcharoth

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-Ian Woollard