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 by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie_von_Rauch which has been up since 2006. Plus I've fixed a typo of July 31 and removed an unsourced DOB WereSpielChequers On 18 September 2010 14:50, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/09/2010, Carcharoth <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > -Ian Woollard > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
