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The world's Wikifiddlers are obsessed with santorum. Though they can't agree on what that is. For some, it's a word. For others, it's not: it's the result of a campaign to create a word. The distinction – however subtle – has sparked weeks of controversy among the core contributors to Wikipedia, the "free encyclopedia anyone …

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  1. jugear
    Pirate

    Just another day

    Wikipedia is a friggin' joke, its "editors" (ha!) and "administrators" (haha!) a live mass of snaggle-toothed, slithering, slimy critters that no honest person should have the misfortune to encounter, ever.

    Even after you have mastered its byzantine rules, a process that takes many months, you have ZERO guarantee of getting good, solid info into the "encyclopedia" (aahahaha!!) if one of the zillion cliques of warlords, battlenerds and cynical self-marketers object to it.

    Case in point, just in the last couple of days: El Reg publishes an update on Captain Cyborg (Kevin Warwick) and notes in a postscript how he and his confederates have kept out even one small paragraph of criticism from the grandiloquent puff piece masquerading as his Wiki "article" (lol). A handful of readers rode into the valley of death, valiantly struggling to insert the paragraph. The first brought an improved reference for the quote, ironclad even by Wiki's "verifiability", "relevance" and "reliable source" standards.

    All, all for naught. Warwick (probably Wiki admin "Mdd") and Wiki editors "Bradka" (his secretary), "James Wraight" (his wife), as well as colluding Wiki admin "2/0" (his pet goldhamster) together beat back the onslaught and retired to the pub for beer.

    Just another friggin day on the friggin Wikipedia, among the friggin Wikipediots.

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  2. mraak

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    On the first republican presidential debate he said:

    "We need strong family and christian family values because if you don't have that,... guess what,... next thing you have is government debt, economic recession, and all the bad things we're experiencing now"

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    wow

    anything to dodge the current spate of immoral lying behavior by Democrats..keep digging up old republican scandal and ignore the Weiner lying in the room.

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    1. alwarming
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      Re: wow

      This is a UK site, AC. No one cares about republican vs democrats here. And this article is about wiki-bombing and such... If anything it's very slightly sympathetic towards the victims of wiki-bombing - though in cse of this senator, it's really hard to be! :)

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