[Wikimediaau-l] Warringah council edit-war

[Liam Wyatt]

Morning all,

I've just checked the Sydney Morning Herald website and they've a  
frontpage article discussing the upcoming local elections in NSW for  
the division of Warringah (northern beaches of Sydney).
This is relevant because halfway down the article it talks about edit- 
warring on en-wikipedia's article [[Warringah Council]]. Looking  
through the recent history does indeed show a fair bit of changing by  
anons and newly-created accounts. I've not seen anything previously  
raising this as an article for concern so it is possible that the  
reporter has been doing digging of his own and possibly been tipped  
off by the protagonists.

I raise this just so that we might be aware of this as something that  
might need to be kept an eye on. I'm watchlisting etc. Perhaps I  
might request semi-protect if it continues.
Here's the article in the SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/ 
voters-get-angry-beaches-and-beyond-battle/2008/08/14/1218307119843.html
Here's the relevant wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Warringah_Council

I'm aware that WM-AU mailing list is probably not the best place to  
discuss this but it seemed too minor to post at an admin noticeboard,  
and it is Australia-specific so I thought we might be able to deal  
with any potential problems "in house" as it were. I don't want to be  
considered to be spamming the list, so tell me if I should have  
notified elsewhere instead.

Best,
-Liam Wyatt

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