• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    6 hours ago

    They need to have a policy change… public figures like those calling for these edits need to be shown in the most realistic light imaginable… meaning the darkest possible.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      3 hours ago

      Wikipedia should start displaying a disclaimer banner that the person has been trying to edit the page

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        That’s what the “Talk” section functionally does. People can (and do) check it when an article has lots of frequent heavy editing. And a lot of these edits do get rolled back as they’re exposed, as Wikipedia admins are reasonably good at keeping the propaganda generically pro-western rather than nakedly for-profit or regionally partisan.

        At the same time, Wales is a self-proclaimed libertarian who is constantly putting his hand out to keep the website funded and operational. I have to assume there’s a certain degree of self-dealing happening in the background just to keep the site from getting the kind of abuse suffered by Internet Archive or Anna’s Archive.