Has anybody been able to confirm that the Wikipedia article about
Vinson did have either the false story or a reference to the newspaper
with the bad date? I did have a look at the article history a couple
of days ago but couldn't confirm it.
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Well, this version, and the next has the story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_Vinsondirection=prevoldid=384594130
On 19/09/2010, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anybody been able to confirm that the Wikipedia article about
Vinson did have either the false story
and the diff link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_Vinsonaction=historysubmitdiff=384520767oldid=366306681
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.comwrote:
Well, this version, and the next has the story:
I'm not going to say anything about who edited the article immediately
prior to this story by Rush Limbaugh. I don't have to say anything
because you know what I'm thinking.
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On 18/09/2010, Carcharoth carcharot...@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
The fake date reminds me of the time I detected a youthful
self-promoter, Portia Farmer, American singer and actress, because
she happened to put a link to her autobiographical Wikipedia article
onto the February 29 article claiming to have been born on February
29, 1989.
Yes, perhaps an
I've started trawling through our 117 articles which contain the term
June 31 with a view to loading it as a Botlaf search.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Botlaf/June_31
I've already found the very wonderful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_Stomping_Day
And my suspicions have been aroused
On 18/09/2010, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, perhaps an automated filter of some kind could be used to tag
edits like this.
It should be possible to use existing bots for this using the arcane
arts of 'regular expression' matching.
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-Ian Woollard
I've just tracked down one anomaly to 2005, as the user hasn't edited
since 2008 I've just quietly removed that particular redlinked battle
from the relevant list.
Good news is that April 31 has only 47 anomalies.
I think this could be a big project.
WereSpielChequers
On 18 September 2010
I just heard about this from Keith Olbermann's show. Rush Limbaugh's
researchers apparently grabbed a story from Wikipedia about Judge
Roger Vinson and used it in one of his rants against health care. The
story, describing the judge as a keen hunter and taxidermist who hung
stuffed bear heads
Yes, it's all over the blogosphere too. The spin is all about how stupid
Rush Limbaugh is to be taken in by a hoax on Wikipedia, and not the least
about how a hoax could be on Wikipedia in an article about a living person,
complete with a forged/fictional citation. Apparently it is a given out in
Reminds me of the situation last year where inflammatory but fake Limbaugh
quotes were posted to
Wikiquotehttp://maaadddog.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/quotation-attributed-to-rush-limbaugh-is-a-damnable-lie/
and
became a big deal in the U.S. political blogosphere. This was around the
time Limbaugh
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:14 AM, crock spot crocks...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't be surprised if this whole thing turns out to be a hoax perpetrated by
Limbaugh himself, and bites Wikipedia in the ass. This bears a striking
resemblance to something Rush has long complained about: sourced comments
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