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This morning at 11:10 AM CST and presumably by either a friend of Sony or Microsoft, someone sabotaged Nintendo's Wikipedia entry replacing the full article with the following thoughtful and provocative statement: "Nintendo Sucks!!!!!1" In the short moments before Wikipedia admins could get the correct page back up, the assailant successfully misled several would-be Nintendo fans to assume the

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...e=news&ID=31171
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The link redirects to some blog, that says the real source is http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/09/fanboys-...ikipedia-entry/ , which adds in the real last line "This is all according to an unsubstantiated Digger and Flickr user. "

Somebody vandalized the article and then boasted on digg that they had convinced people that Nintendo went out of business because "Nintendo Sucks!!!!!1" would be what it's Wikipedia article would officially change to.
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