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  1. “We think you lot should now see this as a challenge to add horsepiss facts to Wikipedia pages before a prominent event is due to receive coverage, to see if you can get them published. Send us the clippings, of course.”

    Seriously? We’re encouraging people to pollute our media and online info even more than they are currently? No wonder online research is rapidly losing credibility if we who should know better are already lighting the fire. And we should be the ones fighting to protect the value of such things.

    Sure, the media is an ass for printing information that more diligent fact-checking could have revealed as false, but that doesn’t give anyone else a licence to make the situation worse.

    Never mind the poor average consumer/reader who won’t necessarily be aware of the fun and games going on.

    I now prepare myself for the inevitable kickback from people calling me too ‘precious’ and humourless. 😉

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