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Wikipedia: re-writing history
- akolbe 12y agoFor six years, Wikipedia named Boston College basketball player Joe Streater as one of the key figures in the 1978–79 point shaving scandal. Streater was innocent: he wasn't even on the team that season. Yet this spurious fact came to be quoted by Associated Press, TV networks and countless others.
- metasonix 12y agoWhassa matter, he caught The Mighty Wiki with its pants around its ankles, and it isn't an "interesting story" for Hacker News? How would you like it if Wikipedia defamed YOU personally for six years?