Last week, a person with the Twitter handle @arizonasunblock from Tampa, Florida, noticed that Bradley, who has been on the high court since 2015, appeared to make major changes to her Wikipedia biography earlier this year.
I’ve seen this happen so many times and it’s always so embarrassing. There’s a lovely template that you can slap onto an article that says something along the lines of “this article appears to have been edited by someone with a close association with the subject.” It’s truly a marvel in how close it skates towards saying, “the subject of this bio didn’t like parts of what people were saying, so they edited it to suit themselves” without saying exactly that. It’s subtly brutal.
Fortunately for the feelings of people who edit their own wiki bios, I suspect that they probably don’t feel the sense of shame that I would if I were in that position.
I’ll have to go post this to the Wikipedia admin noticeboards to be dealt with, though it’s likely someone else has already beat me to the punch if this is hitting the news itself.
As I thought, someone already did and the page has been fixed and temporarily protected to prevent another IP address doing this again. A lot more editor eyes will be on the article too from now on.
Hey, I wonder what Barbara Streisand’s house looks like!
You know, I never even wondered that until you mentioned it. Maybe I’ll check it out because now I’m irrationally curious! I bet it’s pretty nice!
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Which iirc is against Wikipedia rules
So this is what my teachers meant when they said “don’t trust Wikipedia”.
Don’t worry, it’ll be corrected. Issues like this are temporary and ultimately fixed, as this news article coming out helps do.
Politics articles aren’t ones I would suggest are inherently reliable in any medium regardless.
Oh I know it’ll get corrected. Hard-core wikipedia editors and admins are a different breed, this shit won’t last.
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One time in school the teacher actually told us to go on Wikipedia to look something up for a report. I edited the page to change the information to something incorrect. I of course put the correct info on my report. I taught everyone a lesson that day.
And then everyone clapped.
Since then you’ve donated some money to the Wikimedia Foundation, to make up for your misdeeds, right?
It’s a shitty thing to do. But not illegal. I’m sure there’s something worse to accuse her of doing, than breaking the terms of services of Wikipedia.
Don’t let shitty things slide just because they aren’t illegal.
