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Dublin Institute of Technology, apparently. Carcharoth On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Maybe he hit preview and never saved the edits? :-) > Or he edited the wrong article (you never know, it could be that simple). > Ask him if he knows what "preview" and "diff" means. > > Hmm. What was the date of all this again? > > I've found vandalism on the *talk* page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Cristiano_Ronaldo&diff=281261008&oldid=281162798 > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Cristiano_Ronaldo&diff=281261088&oldid=281261008 > > Surely it couldn't be that simple? > > Carcharoth > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> Update on the farrago. Apparently they printed my letter in the 25 April >> edition of The Spectator. >> >> Liddle responds: >> >> http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/3573521/part_2/letters.thtml >> >> Spectator readers respond to recent articles >> >> I did foul Ronaldo >> >> Sir: Let me assure Charles Matthews (Letters, 25 April) that I most >> certainly vandalised Cristiano Ronaldo’s Wikipedia page — on not one but >> two occasions. This would suggest that the site’s ‘history’ section is >> every bit as inaccurate as every other part of Wikipedia. It’s fun, but >> most people would be advised to trust it about as far as they would a >> press statement from Derek Draper. >> >> Rod Liddle >> Marlborough, Wiltshire >> >> My comment (placed onsite, may not get past moderation): >> >> Rod, you don't convince. What you wrote can be checked. Article >> histories log all edits: it's a database, that's what the software does, >> no inaccuracies. Ask someone under 30. The odd thing is that journos >> wishing to convince the gullible that "the Internet" has intrinsic "low >> standards" tend to fall into this trap of making confident, wild claims >> (cf. Giles Hattersley of The Sunday Times); if you don't actually >> understand the medium yet, try not writing about it. Adopting perceived >> lazy standards as your own, where convenient, used to be called "going >> native", in the old days. >> >> Charles >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l