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	Who are you? ask wiki...

balthazarus

9-1-2008 1:11 PM

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balthazarus says:

By Sunday morning, YoungTrigg came forward, still anonymous, on his or her Wikipedia user page: “It’s not true that ‘all of my edits made Palin look better.’ ”

The new availability of info, and hence influence poses many new questions of ethics.. it seems like the future-now becomes more interesting...

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9-1-2008 6:51 PM

debbyski

2+2=5. Just keep saying it (and rewriting it of course)

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