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- soupr, on 02/28/2008, -2/+43The article is awful. Were the edits even malicious?
- geekchic, on 02/28/2008, -5/+38Someone needs to issue a "Dummies Guide to Proxy Servers" to the UK's civil servants.
- luis188, on 02/28/2008, -5/+35nice, great wikipedia for that attitude, the goverments don't subtend a public site
- doublsh0t, on 02/28/2008, -4/+24Government entities can sometimes provide good solid information backed by credible sources and scientific studies. I'd be interested in what exactly these page creations and modifications were pertaining to exactly. As long as the information isn't malicious and is reliable, I think these sources should be allowed and might should be encouraged even. The lack of solid credible sources of information has plagued Wikipedia from the beginning. I hope they're not excluding good information.
- nachowski, on 02/28/2008, -2/+13Wikiscanner managed to pull up a partial list of edits, which at first glance do seem to be vandalism:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=doh.gov.uk - mjomha, on 02/28/2008, -10/+20great job wiki
- neocr0n, on 02/28/2008, -2/+12Buried, it doesn't say what they are editing. Is it the DoH trying to cover some truths about the NHS? Is it the DoH trying to give the correct information about the NHS or is it thousands of stupid employees who have very little to do with their time other than browse and edit wikipedia?
- MAGZine, on 04/22/2008, -5/+15Looks like the Department of Health got served.
- gypsi, on 02/28/2008, -3/+13wikipedia needs to apply the same standard to corporate edits
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -2/+10my other car is a porsche [citation needed]?
- Ben1220, on 02/28/2008, -2/+7ROFLMAO yeah but yeah its good that wikipedia has the ability to say no to uk govt. But if they are only making accurate edits then whats the problem? It doesnt specify if they were being accurate or not.
- DDRRE, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5Dugg for department of health shortened into D'oh! :D
- REBELinBLUE, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5I am a Liberal Democrat before I get buried for supporting Labour, but Gordon Brown is no more unelected than many other prime ministers, there have been several since the end of the second world war (for example John Major) who became Prime Minister in much the same way. You do not vote for the prime minister in this country, you vote for your local MP, the party that takes the most seats then forms a government, labour has the most seats, so their leader is the Prime Minster. It really isn't that complex and has worked this way for hundreds of years.
Even if I supported Labour I would not have voted for them last time as my local Labour MP broke several major promises during his last term (such as he was going to oppose top up fees and the war with Iraq, and then he voted for both of them).
As for this claim that if you don't believe them you are being unpatriotic, what a load of nonsense, I have never heard anyone in government, in the media, in the civil service, hell even in the general public, make such a claim. Unlike in the US media where people like Ann Coulter & Bill O'Reilly do just that. - luke16, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5If you're interested...........http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Department_of_Heal ...
- phazon88, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5[Citation Needed]
- CarzorStelatis, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3You are confusing the Department of Health with the NHS. The NHS is made up primarily of medical professionals and employs the huge number of people you talk about, whereas the Department of Health is a government department made up of politicians and bureaucrats.
- unusualbob, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3looks malicious, at least somewhat:
70.232.40.149 Billy Ray Cyrus [cur] 131172340 [[WPAES|]]Replaced page with 'i like sucking dick, like crazy 0 0000-00-00 00:00:00
74.101.166.77 Billy Talent II [cur] 113931068 HAHA I DELETED YOUR THINGY!!!!!!!!!!***** YOU 0 0000-00-00 00:00:00
and that was only in the first 50 entries, i didnt look any further - GeekyGerge, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3Looks like a list of Digg comments.
- topace3000, on 02/28/2008, -3/+5Windows is generally pretty useful to the average person as well.
- HenvY, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2No way an awesome South Park reference like that is getting dugg down. :(
- mGARANDEUR1, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2I don't know, I find wikipedia to be fairly accurate compared to the government.
- REBELinBLUE, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2No one has said the current government isn't appalling, they are burying the parent because what he has said is a load of rubbish (for the record I didn't bury him). No one is accused of being unpatriotic for not following the government line and Gordon Brown became Prime Minster by the same process that many have.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3when they held the last election it was widely known that blair was going to stand down and brown was the odds on favourite to be his replacement, perhaps you should like read the news every so often, keep up on current affairs
- CarzorStelatis, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2The people who are burying him don't realise how appalling the current UK government is. Just look at Iraq: the whole WMD ***** was Blair's idea. Bush, for better or worse, just said 'Saddam is an evildoer and we're going to kick some ass', whereas Blair came out with the now-infamous 'dodgy dossier' claiming that Iraq could launch WMDs within 45 minutes. This is the government that imprisons people for looking at anti-Western websites, bans protest within a mile of Parliament, puts CCTV everwhere, and wants to be able to intern brown people for three months without a charge let alone conviction.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -5/+6The chances of the spin-obsessed UK government providing objective balanced information is about as likely as Microsoft apologising for Windows.
- plingboot, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2Technically, in the UK, we don't vote for leaders we vote for local MPs, the most MPs wins with whoever the party leader happens to be.
- Aeaus, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1e.g. SSUK
- MrViklund, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Good.
- doublsh0t, on 02/28/2008, -5/+6As long as the information is solid, isn't the lack of credible sources the very thing that has plagued Wikipedia for so long? Besides, I'd hardly call fifteen hundred edits, page creations, and entires over the course of two years "subtending" (I'd also like to see the breakdown--doesn't simply correcting a grammar error qualify as an "edit"?)
- diggpandit, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2I think you use it for doing homeworks! :D It's just for developing KB not doing homeworks.
- Herostratus, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Good Deal... If you want the truth dont ask the government, ask Wiki
- CarzorStelatis, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Nope, but it's banned most of them. It's not that hard to open up Torpark, take a note of the external IP addresses you end up with, then report them on Wikipedia to get them hit with the banstick.
- jeffsback2223, on 02/28/2008, -3/+4I don't think my government is "Credible". I certainly don't like it when we get fed lies through the mass media. I just wished they'd keep their hands off our social media as well.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1An internet encyclopedia has never seemed sexier to me.
- REBELinBLUE, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1The Labour party has a leadership contest but only one person challenged Gordon Brown, and that was John McDonnell, but he didn't get enough nominations to get on the ballot and thus Brown as the only person who did get enough party nominations won by default. Brown did not just automatically become leader of the Labour party (as you said, which was, after all, the party that most people voted for in the preceding election) and thus Prime Minster.
- Myonosken, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1What do you mean "your government"- this is the UK's DoH and well known by even the media to be ***** incompetent.
- GMorgan, on 02/28/2008, -2/+3I find Tom Cruise to be fairly accurate compared to government.
- jeffsback2223, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Sorry I didn't make myself clearer. What I am saying is that you should put this in perspective. Its not just the UK, but everyone around the world thinks their government is either completely incompetent or intentionally force feeding you disinformation.
- portos12, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Sure, why not?
http://www.highpr.net - inactive, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Still it is a weird thing to do for a "freedom of speech" project...
- CarzorStelatis, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Actually, Gordon Brown is _more_ unelected than Major. At least the latter was elected by the members of his party (which was, after all, the party that most people had voted for in the preceding election). NOBODY voted for Brown as PM.
- Scheissen, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Oh Socialism!
- nephilimx, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2They editted power rangers pages? That list seems iffy
- diggrim, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1all it says is: Information obtained by Conservative shadow health spokesman Stephen O'Brien shows that between 22 August 2005 and 3 August 2007, there have been close to 1,500 occasions when the department's IP address (the code that identifies which computers are being used on the internet) has been associated with the creation or amendment of entries on the encyclopaedia website Wikipedia[2]. That's more than two per day. Exactly what the Department of Health has been amending is yet to be revealed.
- diggrim, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1and for the record: that's not an Xor
- kazamx, on 02/28/2008, -4/+4I would guess so. If not then they would have received a big thank you for all the help. You don't bad people for helping, but for hurting.
- RomgRim, on 02/28/2008, -5/+5Wiki => Minitruth. The 'truth' at Wiki is so poorly written and so bloody skewed. Anyone who takes Wiki and that charlatan Jimbo and his apparatchiks seriously is an utter tool and fool.
- dontaskagain, on 02/28/2008, -2/+2A first i thought you were just a troll, but since you have Rudy Giuliani as a friend, now i think your a retarded troll. But hardly surprising, intel isnt a rogues primary stat.
- JMSantos, on 02/28/2008, -0/+0Controversial.
- sandeepshimpi, on 03/12/2008, -0/+0Another good choice for an ebay alternative is elfingo.com http://www.elfingo.com
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