Former Feinstein staffer edited Wikipedia entries

[Kadie]

Former Feinstein staffer edited Wikipedia entries
Changes raise questions about site
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Washington -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office acknowledged today that a former staff member had removed references to the California Democrat's net worth on the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, as well as altered entries about her husband Richard Blum's Chinese investments in 1997.

A former staff member "independently went on to Wikipedia to correct some material he felt was not appropriate," said Feinstein spokesman Howard Gantman. "The senator was not even aware of it."

The changes to the biographies of members of Congress, allegedly by their staffs, have again raised questions about the credibility of the online encyclopedia that has become an authoritative source for millions of Internet users.

The disclosure by Feinstein's office today was the latest admission from a handful of senators' offices that staff members had been beautifying their bosses' biographies on Wikipedia.

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[BushOut06]

1. I would take anything you see in Wikipedia with a grain of salt

For just that reason. Unless you can corroborate the info somewhere else, I wouldn't really trust it
on important topics.

[Dolomite]

2. Words like "credibility" and "online", along with "authoritative" and

"internet" all getting used in the same sentence like that?

Child please... Only if you're talking about porn - maybe then those words mean something.

[benburch]

3. Wikipedia is a sewer.

Not an authoritative source of anything. Freepers mostly run the whole show.

[Nutmegger]

4. Is your entry still on Wiki?

I haven't checked in a loooong time.

[benburch]

5. Yes.

Numerous freeping attempts on my personal entry and an attempt to delete the White Rose entry entirely in the last couple of months.

These guys just do not have lives.

[Nutmegger]

6. Glad it's still up

Yup, damn Freepers have nothing better to do.