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- toddomatic, on 05/20/2008, -8/+531Hear bad news .... Step 1: Update Wikipedia .... Step 2: Call Police .... Ooops, fogot Step 2.
- mcaaronice, on 10/11/2007, -2/+499I will be using this as my example from now on when people say wikipedia isn't reliable.
- TheoDork, on 10/11/2007, -19/+507I blame the Undertaker.
- Conwaysb0718, on 10/11/2007, -16/+429Whaaat?
- JiMiThInG, on 10/11/2007, -22/+414wikipedia is becoming self aware and will soon be calling itself skynet. I for one hail our new computer overlord!
- dotbacher, on 10/11/2007, -8/+382Someone has some explaining to do.
- sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/11/2007, -6/+293So someone broke into Chris Benoit house killed his wife and his son, sent text messages to several of Benoits friends using Benoits cell phone, staged Benoit suicide, cleaned up all the evidence linking himself to the crime and then went home and jump on to Wikipedia so he could get the jump on every one. Or Chris Benoit has access to some kind of time machine and if he dose god help us all.
- agjimenez, on 10/11/2007, -7/+279Your title needs more exclamation points!
- canewediggit, on 10/11/2007, -9/+255this is one of the strangest, most screwed up things i have ever heard in my life. i wish i had a wittier comment, but i am in awe of this development.
- PerfectCELL, on 10/11/2007, -4/+190Thats a strange new twist.
- jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -4/+165I agree. But if you had a famous friend who sent you a text saying that his wife was dead, would you think: "hmm, I should update Wikipedia". Now matter what the truth is, it's pretty ***** up.
- ChzPlz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+143Obviously the actions of the pre-crime unit.
- GameCop, on 10/11/2007, -3/+143Here is the link in question which shows the revision: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Benoit&diff=prev&oldid=140442953
The person added ", stemming from the death of his wife Nancy."
The revision was made 12:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Or 14 and a half hours before the bodies were reported discovered.
The IP address (69.120.111.23) originates from Stamford, Connecticut ... coincidently, it's the same location as WWE Headquarters.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Chris_Benoit&diff=prev&oldid=140679736
http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=86875&st=630 - theamazingkort, on 10/24/2007, -14/+150This proves how user-friendly wikipedia is since it's apparent that you can be completely bat ***** on roids and still hold enough composure to update your entry and kill your entire family!
- mortigon, on 10/11/2007, -6/+134Maybe WIKIPEDIA DID IT!
- motbob, on 10/11/2007, -7/+113It seems pretty straightforward. Benoit called WWE, telling them that he wouldn't be able to perform because his wife was dead. A WWE employee posted that fact onto Wikipedia. Little did the employee know that Benoit's wife was dead because Benoit had killed her.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -13/+118the police should have checked wikipedia before looking for the body, they could have saved themselves some time.
roflllllllllll - UtahApocalyse, on 10/11/2007, -7/+108I think the WWE knew about the deaths on Sunday but did not call until Mnday because of the Pay-Per-View that night.
- logicalnoise, on 10/11/2007, -4/+94***** creepy, that is
- alexanEmpire, on 10/11/2007, -7/+90I miss Macho Man Randy Savage......OH YEEEAAAAHH!!!!!
- djepik, on 10/11/2007, -15/+96lol WWE headquarters. Makes it sound like they are superheros
- nmajdan, on 10/11/2007, -4/+83Here's the edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Benoit&diff=next&oldid=140425583
Subsequent edits say that the source is "several pro wrestling websites" but were reverted nonetheless. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -17/+95Step 3: Profit!
- timdorr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+69Actually, it looks to be a horrible coincidence. First, check out the IP's other edits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/69.120.111.23
This guy is a vandal, as shown quite explicitly in these edits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Artest&diff=prev&oldid=138667357
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=African_Wild_Ass&diff=prev&oldid=131227768
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stacy_Keibler&diff=prev&oldid=131227418
So, it's likely this person just happened to vandalize the page at just the right time. Plus, their edit doesn't mention Benoit's son or his own suicide. You'd figure that if they knew about the wife dying, they'd know about the son at the very least. - saintpath, on 10/11/2007, -3/+68What a Twist!
-M. Night Shyamalan - The_Wallbanger, on 10/11/2007, -12/+7412:01am sounds like a default time stamp. Is it possible that the article was edited after the news broke, but Wikipedia recorded the time incorrectly?
- Cide, on 10/11/2007, -4/+66So there it is. Mcmahon killed the family and then updated the wikipedia entry from wwe headquarters in stamford. The perfect crime..
- BassMastr, on 10/11/2007, -5/+66Since WWE was the reason that police went over there in the first place and they have not released all the text messages that people at the WWE received, it is probably safe to assume that he let someone know something in one of the text messages about killing himself. It's really not that hard to imagine...
- Dhalsim007, on 10/11/2007, -24/+82This is all the work of some prankster using IP spoofing software. FOX NEWS should really rescind this. See what else the person edited on Wiki ... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=50&target=69.120.111.23 ... full of misspells and errors, calling another wrestler a "rapist" and worse. Really immature from whoever did it. See more at http://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=25190&p=1 for more details on how this happened.
- jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -2/+51or a large company with multiple locations
- tyler0is0sexy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44It can tell the future!
- jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -1/+43That's a huge coincidence, though, if someone was just defacing wikipedia. Saying she was dead, after she was killed, but before anyone found her.
- lazyslacker, on 10/11/2007, -3/+44I think it's funny how Wikipedia rejected the second edit by saying "several pro wrestling websites' is still not reliable information." and then at the end of the Fox News article it says, "In related news, FOXNews.com also has learned, through widely posted Web reports, (...)". Apparently information on the internet is good enough for Fox News, but not good enough for Wikipedia!
- xerus, on 10/11/2007, -9/+46MEANWHILE, AT THE LEAGE OF WRESLTERS...
- logicalnoise, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40/yoda voice
- Anand999, on 10/11/2007, -2/+38It's really very simple. We've all been misunderstanding Wikipedia's purpose. Everyone has been putting in updates about things that happened in the past. But what happens when you put in an update about the future? Now we know that they come true. Now, if you excuse me, I am going to create an article about myself talking about how I am retiring from work because of winning a $100 million jackpot in the lottery. Wikipedia don't fail me now!
- trajomoreno, on 10/11/2007, -15/+49Step 3:.....
Step 4: Profit! - canewediggit, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34somebody call hollywood, we got ourselves a pitch!
"the page" - one man finds he has the power to alter the fates of millions while sitting in his mother's basement, just by updating wikipedia. starring;
dane cook as 'the boy' - dude, so what if like, i change my page to say i had 4 legs. that would be crazy!
sam jack as 'the black guy' - now that's what i'm talking about! change that page, bitch!
jessica alba as 'the hottie' - why do my ***** get bigger every five seconds?
keanu reeves as 'the sysadmin' - woah
coming this summer, make sure to log out on your way out - swiftekho, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32@Conwaysb0718
This just shows how awesome Wiki is.
IT CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE! - bpmdub, on 10/11/2007, -4/+34could have been posted via a vpn connection
- TheSabre, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31If I was Chavo, I'd be scared *****. That's something straight out of The Ring. If someone defaces your Wikipedia page, you die. Be afraid.
- unusualbob, on 10/11/2007, -6/+35Your! comment! needs! more! exclamation! points!
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/11/2007, -5/+34Maybe he VPNed into the office network and posted it before killing himself.
- Nowheredan, on 10/11/2007, -5/+34Well, considering he was sending text messages the whole time, it's not unlikely that he told someone he worked with saying that his wife had died.
- Zuggy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28I knew wikipedia was fast, but damn
- nmajdan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+27More discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN#Chris_Benoit_and_wikipedia_announcing_the_death_of_Nancy_Daus_before_it_was_announced
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24No. Reversions to the article were made within minutes, and a comment asking the anonymous poster for sources was also logged. The sequence of events seems to indicate that the timestamps are correct.
- pureevilmatt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24Duh... he has A TIME MACHINE!
- BassMastr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23Agreed, but I'm guessing it wasn't a friend of his...being that they were working on Sunday since they had a big pay per view I'm guessing the office was full of staffers. I'm guessing someone told someone who told someone and it spread like wild fire. I'm guessing it's hard to keep something like that secret when everyone was expecting him to be there Sat and Sun. But yes...it is very weird. He HAD to have told someone something...
- luma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22And you're suggesting that pro wrestlers regularly setup IPSec VPN tunnels to VNC into their home machines in order to evade proxy detection?
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