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

  • 24-11-2013 10:22pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    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?


Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Kazooie


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭ThirdMan


    Ray Darcy was talking about his wiki article one day. It said he was the nephew of "Clancy Darcy, the renowned Irish cyclist".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Pat Kenny was a sniper at the GPO.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Pat Kenny was a sniper at the GPO.

    I thought it was Gerry Ryan's page that was hacked with that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I've only 'vandalized' Wiki once, last summer. Totally worth it. :D
    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talbot_Street&oldid=504857670#.22Ah_Leave_it_Out.22


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