The funniest edit/biggest mistake you've read on Wikipedia & have you ever edited it?

IvaBigWun · 24-11-2013 10:22pm #1

Robbie Williams eats domestic pets in pubs for money (This popped up on the singer's Wiki page in 2006)

Others: David Beckham was a Chinese goalkeeper in the 18th century and a yacht killed British TV presenter Vernon Kay.

Whats the funniest edit/biggest mistake you've read on Wikipedia & have you ever edited it?

IvaBigWun · 24-11-2013 10:32pm

Tony Blair:

The Times Online reported that the Wikipedia entry for Tony Blair that appeared one week in February 2006 stated that he hung up “posters of Adolf Hitler on his bedroom wall as a teenager” and that he started “a false war against Saddam Hussein.” Tony Blair’s entry was a platform for political enemies to rant about the Iraq war and his position on civil service neutrality.

The threat was taken seriously; however, and Wikipedia even “launched an investigation to see if any of the postings [were] coming from the House of Commons,” since a similar American scandal using the power of Wikipedia was traced back to officials who worked at the Capitol building.

IvaBigWun · 24-11-2013 11:18pm

Bill Gates photo:

This vandalized photo of Bill Gates was forwarded around after someone edited his Wikipedia page. It features a perfectly nice photo of Gates, marked up with devil horns and a Hitler moustache.

:pac:

Stone Deaf 4evr · 25-11-2013 10:16am

The one where someone edited the irish town of swinford. they described it as a place where werewolves could be seen in their natural habitat and Lars ulrich from metallica once bought a mars bar there when passing through, followed by "it is not known if he also bought a drink"

I think that actually got a mention on the tv.

IvaBigWun · 25-11-2013 3:33pm

There was the cooly named Slow Blind Driveway, a fictitious musician whose page remained online for 3 years

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 25-11-2013 3:58pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

The one where someone edited the irish town of swinford. they described it as a place where werewolves could be seen in their natural habitat and Lars ulrich from metallica once bought a mars bar there when passing through, followed by "it is not known if he also bought a drink"

I think that actually got a mention on the tv.

Dara O'Briain talked about it on the panel. The edited article was ridiculously long and had lots of similar nonsense in it, I got a good laugh from it.

Kazooie · 25-11-2013 4:01pm

I remember looking up Damien Duffs page before. The very last sentence in the personal life section was. "He is 2% down syndrome" or words to that effect. Thought it was a bit mean.