Rep. Joe Wilson's Wiki Page

[kevinmc]

[Jennicut]

1. Priceless!

:rofl:

[Parker CA]

2. Spot on. King douchebag after that bullshit tonight. nt.

[msallied]

3. OMG! Is this for real??

[The Magistrate]

4. Seems Accurate, Sir

We will have to see it stays that way....

[orleans]

12. i don't know how to do that--but i wish someone would go back and

fix it (putting the douchebag back in--it's been removed!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_(U.S._politician)

[Clio the Leo]

5. ha ha! Smart of you to do the screen cap! Good thinking. NT

[Muttocracy]

8. on wiki you can almost always see previous versions via the history page

you can compare previous versions of the page.

[Muttocracy]

6. marked for vandalism; editing history is nuts

"This page is semi-protected.
Editing of this article by new or unregistered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.
See the protection policy and protection log for more details. If you cannot edit this article and you wish to make a change, you can request an edit, discuss changes on the talk page, request unprotection, log in, or create an account."

You can see the editing history here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson_%28U.S._politician%29&action=history

[Cha]

7. How did you do

that? Was it already written like that or did you do that?

[Muttocracy]

9. it was like that at one point in the editing wars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Wilson_%28U.S._politician%29&diff=prev&oldid=312893927

[Cha]

11. I get it..the editing

WARS and we got the best Edit!

[Ken Burch]

10. You need to go back and have the page link to the definition of "douchebag"

n/t.

[Jim Lane]

13. This is a real waste of time

There are serious disputes on Wikipedia. Right-wingers have kept mention of "falafel" out of Bill O'Reilly's biography, have eviscerated most of the information about the problems with the 2004 election (in Ohio and elsewhere), and.... I could go on for pages.

These are battles we could win if enough progressives were involved in editing Wikipedia. Instead, people are wasting their time vandalizing Wilson's page and then cackling about the vandalism. This is just juvenile. The page has been semi-protected now, so this is unlikely to recur, but if I had seen it in its vandalized state, I would've removed the "douchebag" comment.

[snakpak]

14. More Rep Wilson Wikipedia Screen Grabs

http://www.snakpak.info/joewilson.html