Talk:USA Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia
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[edit] A new scandal is developing: corporations have been caught editing wikipedia
Please see: Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Firestone
Bridgestone tire is editing the Firestone page (Bridgestone bought Firestone in 1988), Bridgestone employees have been deleting out all of the information which is critical of Bridgestone, we just caught them a couple of days ago.
I would like some help and advice on how to procede from those editors and administrators who have been involved with the WP:Congressional Staffer Edits, who broke the story?
How did this story procede?
Who were those who conducted "Further investigation by Wikipedia members"?
Travb (talk) 07:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Missing external link
In the Notes sections, the third note: 3. ^ "Gutknecht joins Wikipedia tweakers", Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, August 16, 2006, accessed August 17th, 2006 that takes to the following article [1] is missing. It should be deleted or found a new sources.--Francisco Valverde 20:26, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Objectivity?
I really like how it talks about all the bad things that Gutkechts' staffers did, and then sums it up with:
Gil Gutknecht lost the 2006 election.
Get that? Messing with Wikipedia = Death.
68.117.61.22 01:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Livejournal links
Livejournal fails both WP:RS and WP:EL, so I removed those links, and we also can't link to copyright violations, so I removed on those grounds too. - Denny (talk) 16:19, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] U.S. Representative David Davis (R, Tennesseee-1)
The Knoxville News-Sentinel just this morning published an article about Davis press secretary Timothy Hill utilizing federal tax dollars and resources to vandalize David Davis (Tennessee politician).Bee Cliff River Slob 22:55, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/aug/11/entries-on-wikipedia-edited-bydavis-aide/#comments
[edit] State level editing
I just caught a CT state employee removing all references about prison overcrowding and psrole issues from the biography of State Rep. Michael Lawlor....which in the wake of the Cheshire home invasion massacre by two paroled convicts is a sticky wicket for him...I suspect digital airbrushing is being done by lots of political hacks on the state level —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.14.84.60 (talk) 03:54, August 21, 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Global perspective
Hi. This article should be clearer about which congress had staffers editing Wikipedia. This would be in keeping with Wikipedia's global perspective. I'll add "USA" to the title. (For people in the USA, this group might be "the" congress, but in my region, "the" congress is someone else - and they haven't been caught editing Wikipedia yet). --Gronky 11:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Internal account
It's been almost two years now; I don't think there is any need for the "internal account" to be linked here. I can understand the possible motivation at the time to have a hatnote for it. But it's a self reference and worse it can easily appear to be a POV fork of this article that happens to reside in Wikipedia space. We can do better than that - we can certainly present a fair and balanced article here, with NPOV, while still covering the important issues. I don't think that the internal account needs to be deleted; we can advertise it on the talk page. But I don't think it's particularly appropriate for the article. — Carl (CBM · talk) 00:25, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
