Wikipedia answered me

May 24, 2010 16:14


This was in my email inbox this morning:

Re: [Ticket#2010052410002808] page 'arctic fox' was vandalised

Dear [[XXXX]],

Thank you for your email. Our response follows your message.

05/24/2010 01:43 - [[XXXX]] wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Fox
>
> contains nonsensical information and sexual innuendo of a childish kind.-
>
>

The article has been restored to a previous version to remove the vandalism. Thank
you very much for bringing this to our attention.

Yours sincerely,
William King

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
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In the old times, I would just have fixed it myself. Hell, in the old times, I even started one Wikipedia article. But these days, with edit wars and relevancy debates and cabals with agendas fighting each other, I just sent an email to amorphous 'people who care'. And amazingly, they did.-

geekery, memory lane

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