Do as I say, don’t do as I do.
This one pretty much speaks for itself.
On January 27, 2006, the Lowell Sun of Massachusetts published an article entitled “Rewriting history under the dome.” This story unveiled the editing by Congressional staff members of Congressman Marty Meehan’s Wikipedia entry.
Further investigation by Wikipedia members discovered well over a thousand edits by IP addresses allocated to the US House of Representatives and Senate. These edits had, among others, added libelous statements, removed content with malice, added childish insults, and violated Wikipedia Policy. This has resulted in the blocking of at least one of the IP addresses and the opening of a request for comments page.
The next time a politician or a pundit starts sniffing about the Wild West coarsening of our fine political discourse that’s engendered by those nasty, nasty bloggers, well, you know what to do. —Via the incomparable Majikthise.
