Wikipedia used for libel.

[askolnick]

Can I have some more, please?

Hey geni, if you get a chance you might want to call the College of William and Mary and search down this guy to see if he agrees with the article about him. It was the very first article when I hit the random button today.

Manny, please provide more information about this. I went to the linked page and the article and saw that it was deleted by Geni today.

I'm also interested in examples of libelous entries in Wikipedia, especially ones that the Wiki community leave up despite warnings that they are libelous (such as in my case).

Thanks.

 

[Mojo]

I don'[t care if he agrees with it or not. CSD a7

So why did you delete it?

 

[Manny]

Manny, please provide more information about this. I went to the linked page and the article and saw that it was deleted by Geni today.

It looked more like "prank" than anything maliciously libelous -- it was so over the top. No reason to repeat any of the specific details, as things can become as injected into the permanet here as they can there. But even as a prank it made it abundently clear that no one is looking at the orphan entries on Wikipedia.

 

[geni]

Hmm perhaphs you would like to join http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/

Of course I would advise you to read this first:

http://www.wikipediaclassaction.com/

 

[geni]

It looked more like "prank" than anything maliciously libelous -- it was so over the top. No reason to repeat any of the specific details, as things can become as injected into the permanet here as they can there. But even as a prank it made it abundently clear that no one is looking at the orphan entries on Wikipedia.

They were. It was marked for speedy deletion. Unfortunetly the person who marked it missed it being overwriten.

 

[geni]

So why did you delete it?

CSD A7. biography that makes no claims to notibility.

 

[Manny]

They were. It was marked for speedy deletion. Unfortunetly the person who marked it missed it being overwriten.

Whatever. You guys are shipping sh1t and calling it sausage; the details of how the casing is applied are wholly unimportant.

 

[Major Billy]

The basic problem is that some of the web site owners and most of the users, don't consider themselves responsible and therefore accountable for the extremely boring content.

Force all the Internet users through legal action, to change all current practices that permit anyone to post lackluster content to their website, without formal attribution, without government approval and without recourse back to web site owners and or the author of the content.

Recover $ubstantial monetary damages, on behalf of those who have suffered as a direct result of anything boring.[/url]

OMG. The Major's in deep doo-doo:

www.geocities.com/area51/8888

 

[Diamond]

Hmm perhaphs you would like to join http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/

Of course I would advise you to read this first:

http://www.wikipediaclassaction.com/

Oh look. Someone has created a fake knockoff of a real website and ripped off all content with the aim of misleading people.

Has anyone else felt the irony?

 

[geni]

Oh look. Someone has created a fake knockoff of a real website and ripped off all content with the aim of misleading people.

Um no. The second would be paradory. If they wanted to misslead people they would have not make such a clear refence to fark.

 

[Diamond]

Um no. The second would be paradory. If they wanted to misslead people they would have not make such a clear refence to fark.

Oh that makes such a big difference.

 

[askolnick]

Real Class Acts

Hmm perhaphs you would like to join http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/

Of course I would advise you to read this first:

http://www.wikipediaclassaction.com/

GREAT! I signed up for both!



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