Independent Online Edition > Wikipedia under the microscope over accuracy: "...Alarm bells rang last month when newspapers in Massachusetts discovered that the staff of Congressman Marty Meehan had polished his biography by, for instance, deleting his long-abandoned promise to serve only four terms and praising his 'fiscally responsible' voting record.
Detective work by Wikipedia found that other offices on Capitol Hill had engaged in skulduggery - not all of them with flattering results, such as the false reference to Oklahoma's Tom Coburn being voted 'most annoying senator'.
Wikipedia said it was reversing changes to several of the politicians' entries, and by so doing, added to the list of controversies about its veracity...."
Monday, February 13, 2006
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