Ben C Smith

Casual internet research on Mithridates VI recently led me to the Wikipedia page for Pompey of Rome, where I found the following (emphasis added):

Caesar arrived a short time afterwards. As a welcoming present he received Pompey's head and ring in a basket. However, he was not pleased in seeing his rival, once his ally and son-in-law, murdered by traitors. No.. thats a lie.. haha.. When a slave offered him Pompey's head....

Wikipedia, while often a very good place to start looking for research leads, is of course controversial in its use for actual academic research, but I do not recall ever running across this kind of comment in the text of an article. Besides grammatical errors and the like, it usually sounds like a serious attempt to explicate the subject matter.

Anybody else out there ever come across something this blatantly troll-like?

Ben.

Sigma

I've come across this sort of stuff quite often. I remember visiting NAMBLA's wiki page (after watching 'Cartman joins NAMBLA' to see if it was actually a real organization), and it said in the introduction something along the lines of '...they are a sick, child molesting, pedophile organization...', and contained other ad hominems.

I refreshed the page and it had been altered.

I think I remember seeing a similar thing on Kissinger's page (nothing to do with paedophilia...)

Pseudo-Deity

This always made me laugh.



Wikipedia is good for finding information through references. As far as I am concerned, the articles are only incidental.

fta

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence :Cheeky:

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That change was undone a few hours later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...ldid=193274961