There is a raging debate whether or not people should have the option to edit Wikipedia pages of prominent political figures such as Joe Wilson. Joe Wilson interrupts Obama’s speech with an outburst. Shortly after this happened, someone posted the new information onto Joe Wilson’s Wikipedia page. At first it was going to be classified as vandalism since it was a new or unregistered user but shortly after it was deleted and the page was locked from editing. “Wikipedians” debated over the source and eventually decided that information needed to be included, but the addition of the fact that Joe Wilson did not have all the facts present at the time had to be present on the page. Another thing that was changed was that his actual quote was removed.
Obama’s Speech
Our opinions:
We think that editing should be done on Wikipedia but should be limited from political figures such as Joe Wilson or Barack Obama.
-Savanna Souza & Austin Soares
2 comments:
We believe that wikipedia is a free open source for a reason, and that editing any article should be perfectly fine. When important things need to be added it isn't fair that regular people can't add them. Furthermore, there are many dedicated admins who always correct problems quickly after they arise, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
I agree that political figures should be block. People would be editing (vandalizing) there pages all the time. Some people doing a project on them will get the wrong facts about them.
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