Hello folks,
Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks has a long list of sites that do database
dumps. Does anyone know which ones are active?
My concern was higher because of the bad timing of the Hager page
edit,overnight of the last day/first day of the month. This would be a
logical time to do an update. When I checked the
site last
Friday (Dec. 1), they hadn't updated this article since before I
expanded it on Nov. 17th.
Thanks for your comments.
Sydney Poore
Fl Celloguy wrote:
1. Was this
information spread to other web sites like Answers.com?
Who do I ask
to find out?
Answers.com and other forks and mirrors don't update that often, if I
am correct. It is highly unlikely that information that stayed there
for only a few hours would be copied. To find out, you could check out
Answers.com - I highly doubt that the information has been copied
given its relatively short amount of time on Wikipedia.
2. Do we all agree that this is a BIG problem.
Can you imagine what
would happen
if another major media source published Hager’s name on a list of
convicted
rapists?
I agre with you that this is a problem that we need to address sooner
or later. The use of Wikipedia for slander, libel, or political
reasons is huge, as evidenced both by the John Seigenthaler Sr. case
and the German Wikipedia's polticial articles.
2. How do I (hopefully, we) stop this
unregistered user (or any
other) from
doing this again? Being very, very generous, I will assume this was
an isolated
incidence of poor judgment. This doesn't change the fact that this
libelous
misinformation appeared in OUR encyclopedia.
Shouldn't this be question number three, by the way? :-) There's
really no way to stop it except to keep a watch on the article and on
the user's contributions. If s/he has a pattern of adding misleading
information, you may wish to warn him about citing sources and
verifiability. If he persists, a block may be needed.
3. I can‘t unring this bell. The Wikipedia
article is listed 6 in
an Yahoo
search of the words David Hager. Being a registered user, I will be
associated
with this article forever. While, an unregistered user can damage
Wikipedia,
Hager, and me.
True; this should only make us more vigilant and aware of the people
who strive to manipulate Wikipedia.
Immediate solution? Ask everyone here to put his
name on your watch
list. Long term solution?…….
Sorry, can't read your proposed long-term solution. Short-term
solution, as you state - be more vigilant and aware.
Thanks!
Flcelloguy
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