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[Skipease Free People Search and Public Record News Blog - Skip Trace, People Search, Web Search and Public Record News] Revisions made by Capitol Hill staffers became so frequent and disruptive earlier this year that Wikipedia temporarily blocked access to the site from some congressional Internet addresses. The pranks included bumping up the age of the Senate’s oldest member, West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, from 88 to 180, and giving crude names to other lawmakers.
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[Beaverhausen Blog] Blame Loki: Given the nature of wikis, political supporters were quickly able to fix the errors, and no prolonged "editwar" ensued. The kicker: IP address logs reveal that the pranksters accessed the Wikipedia
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[Steve's Soapbox] My Top 2 On Prop. 2: Searches for Edwards did not reveal a voting record in San Angelo or that he holds a driver's license with a local address. Likewise, he has no criminal record in Tom Green County and does not own a house in his name, according to searches of county records.
[Concurringopinions.com] Concurring Opinions: Wiki Archives: Although that website no longer exists, the exhibit introduced by the Special Master indicates that its information was drawn from Wikipedia.com, a website that allows virtually anyone to upload an article into what is essentially a free, online encyclopedia. A review of the Wikipedia website reveals a pervasive and, for our purposes, disturbing series of disclaimers, among them, that: (i) any given Wikipedia article "may be, at any given moment, in a bad state: for example it could be in the middle of a large edit or it could have been recently vandalized;" (ii) Wikipedia articles are "also subject to remarkable oversights and omissions;" (iii) "Wikipedia articles (or series of related articles) are liable to be incomplete in ways that would be less usual in a more tightly controlled reference work;" (iv) "another problem with a lot of content on Wikipedia is that many contributors do not cite their sources, something that makes it hard for the reader to judge the credibility of what is written;" and (v) "many articles commence their lives as partisan drafts" and may be "caught up in a heavily unbalanced viewpoint." The websites from which other articles introduced by the Special Master are drawn likewise warn that "the information provided herein should not be used .
[K.lenz.name] Lenz Blog: September 2004 Archives: If some protected work is used in a Wiki without the necessary license, the copyright owner can and should just take it down. Wikipedia has also procedures in place to permanently remove infringing content (also from the page history).
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