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.
--
-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
On 18 September 2010 18:06, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
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
