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Teen charged after threat to school on WikipediaBloomington Pantagraph, USA - 12 minutes ago... The threat was submitted Sunday night or Monday morning to the Web site Wikipedia.com, and warned of violence at the school on Halloween, school district ...
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Okay, it took me all of five minutes to figure out that the school in question is Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois. The edits in question have been oversighted out of existence, but as of now there's a reference to them in this diff, for what that's worth. A more detailed version of the story is on the Chicago Tribune's website. Not much that's interesting, IMO - after all, people use Wikipedia to harass and threaten others all the time - but this quote was interesting, from the Tribune story: QUOTE The threat, which authorities declined to describe, was submitted to the online encyclopedia-like Web site Wikipedia, but wasn't posted. Submitted but not posted? What the heck does that mean? It had to be an edit just like any other, right? They don't have the funky new German-only approval system in place (yet), so this has to be incorrect. Presumably the Faithful were worried this incident would make them look bad, so they made up a blatant lie to cover up the fact that anyone can post threats on their website? Shameless. |
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QUOTE(LamontStormstar @ Wed 1st November 2006, 12:42am)  So if someone put a real name down, they could even have framed someone. Well now, there's an interesting point. Get your playground enemies in big trouble by posting threats to your school on Wikipedia using their names... Hmm, where have I seen that tactic before? It's that extreme-straw-man sock puppet idea again! Only it doesn't make sense. Why would SlimVirgin or Cyde or Rebecca care about Niles West High School in Skokie, IL? In fact, why would anyone care about anything that happened in Skokie, IL? I've driven through Skokie, IL once or twice, and frankly it's nothing to write home about. It has a big mall, I guess, but it isn't anywhere near as upscale as, say, Schaumburg. |
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QUOTE(EuroSceptic @ Wed 1st November 2006, 11:19am) There is no pre-post moderation. Well, there you go then! So the question becomes this: Should we, as concerned citizens, send angry letters to the newspapers, magazines, and other media outlets that regurgitate these false statements, correcting these kinds of inaccuracies and asking them to kindly verify whatever Brad & Co. may say about Wikipedia's policies and procedures in future interviews? Or should we send calm, cordial letters saying basically the same thing? Or should we send out our own press releases, pointing out how certain supposedly-respectable journalists are clearly failing to do their homework and perform even the most rudimentary fact-checking on things the guy is saying? I'm not sure which would work better. However, I'd have to say that reporting Brad's misstatements to the Florida bar is rather pointless. They'd probably give him some sort of award for them, quite frankly. |
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