 List of people allegedly involved in Russian apartment bombings, Professor Plum with the Candlestick |
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| Kato |
  Mon 31st March 2008, 2:00am
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| thekohser |
Mon 31st March 2008, 2:29am
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QUOTE(Kato @ Sun 30th March 2008, 10:00pm)  It's a treasure trove of mostly red-linked nobodies that you've never heard of! Great work, Detective Wiki. |
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| Somey |
Mon 31st March 2008, 8:08am
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 Can't actually moderate Group: Moderators Posts: 11,814 Joined: Sat 17th Jun 2006, 7:47pm From: Dreamland Member No.: 275 |
Y'know, it actually looked like they were doing okay with that, only naming people who had actualy been arrested, charged, imprisoned, killed, or some combination thereof - until they get into this section headed "Suspects according to an alternative version of the events"...
Y'know, I sometimes wonder if WP's tendency to name potentially dangerous people in articles like this doesn't put other people in danger too - maybe even the admins and well-intentioned editors who happen along and try to correct simple errors or even run cleanup bots on stuff like this. I mean, this is a pretty bad misspelling of the word "lieutenant," for example: QUOTE A team of twelve GRU operatives who allegedly conducted bombings in the city of Buynaksk under general command of Leutenatnt General Kostechko (according to a confession of GRU officer Aleksey Galkin, made under torture) So if someone comes along and corrects that, is that person added to some Russian spec-ops "hit list," just for being visible in the revision history? I mean, sure, almost certainly not, but it's an increasingly paranoid world out there. |
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| Yehudi |
Mon 31st March 2008, 12:52pm
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Über Member Group: Inactive Posts: 531 Joined: Wed 6th Dec 2006, 10:52pm Member No.: 694 |
So if there isn't an Office instruction to delete and salt, how is Wikipedia not responsible for libel?
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| Moulton |
Mon 31st March 2008, 12:54pm
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 Anthropologist from Mars Group: Contributors Posts: 10,220 Joined: Mon 29th Oct 2007, 9:56pm From: Greater Boston Member No.: 3,670 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
Naming rumored suspects, where the names are extracted under torture is simply irresponsible journalism, full stop.
Do you remember the bombing in Atlanta's Olympic Park, where the authorities leaked the name of a suspect who was entirely innocent? It ruined his life. As I recall, the news media were also sued, but someone else can look that up. I believe the falsely named suspect died a few years ago, partly from the effects of broken health in the wake of the ordeal. |
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| Yehudi |
Mon 31st March 2008, 12:57pm
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It's the mentality of people who attack a paediatrician because they don't know the difference between a paediatrician and a paedophile. (That did actually happen in England.)
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| Kato |
Mon 31st March 2008, 1:17pm
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dhd Group: Regulars Posts: 5,521 Joined: Fri 29th Dec 2006, 8:39pm Member No.: 767 |
QUOTE(Yehudi @ Mon 31st March 2008, 1:57pm) It's the mentality of people who attack a paediatrician because they don't know the difference between a paediatrician and a paedophile. (That did actually happen in England.) It was actually Wales, but the incident is true... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/901723.stm |
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