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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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From: Brumar89	8/15/2007 8:19:09 AM
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Someone in NYT bldg doing infantile Wikipedia defacing? Our finest newspaper, my *** Wikipedia Defacing Linked To New York Times Building Posted by Kevin Published: Aug 15, 07 04:27 AM Little Green Footballs notes a curious trend in defacing Wikipedia entries emanating from within the walls of The New York Times, starting with the addition of "jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk" to the George W. Bush entry. At little digging via the Wikipedia Scanner reveals that there are many other cases. Here's an update to the entry for Condoleezza Rice... Click on the link to see the change ... "penis" substituted for "pianist". The pattern seems to point to most of the drive-by edits coming from one specific IP address - 199.181.174.146. Interestingly there are several edits from that address for specific New York Times employees. By frequency the most updated entry is the one for Nick Bilton, who was hired at the Times via Jeff Koyen. Koyen had a nasty departure from the Times in 2005 and edits from inside the Times building after he left suggest that Bilton may have been the author editing Wikipedia from the 199.181.174.146 address. Only The New York Times knows for sure if that's the case. We've sent an inquiry to the Times and will report their response... Update: More from Dan Reihl and Auspundits. Note that in the comments to Dan's post (which I had not seen before I started working on this) Kaitain came up with the same suspicion of Bilton. wizbangblog.com WikiDiff: NYT on Tom DeLay Idling away the late hours of Tuesday night (Europe Time) and am fascinated by what will probably turn out to be a treasure trove of information at Wikiscanner. Here are some of my finds: The most notable one I came across was someone at the New York Times thinking that it is more factual to state that Tom DeLay is a "Grand Dragon" of the Republican Party instead of the more prosaic superlative "prominent". Others included: 1. Someone at the NSA thinking that Quantum Cryptography was an overhyped technology (have they already got a handle of this already?). 2. Someone at the NSA showing alot of interest in Al-Qaeda's ideological father, Sayyid Qutb and demonstrating almost anal detail. And that's enough from me for now. Posted by Manny auspundits.typepad.com

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