Someone updated Spicer's Wikipedia page...

[SidDithers]

I got a screencap before it was corrected.




Baghdad Sean.



Sid

[CottonBear]

1. That's his new name: Baghdad Sean!

[still_one]

2. excellent Sid

[yallerdawg]

3. Do you have a copy of the replacement photo?

[question everything]

4. Good one!

Will see how long it will stay.

[SidDithers]

5. It's already been changed...

Right now there's no picture.

Sid

[underpants]

6. They've got a picture of meat jacket back up now

[tenorly]

7. The "encylopedia" anyone can edit.

I take it the edit was quickly reverted. It reflects reality a little too closely.

[nolabear]

8. Look for the trumpeters to have a full time alteration staff.

Anything that can become alt-facts will.

[tenorly]

10. You know it!

Every single major corporate lobby seems to have a small army of Wackypedia trolls and article stalkers. Some of the most aggressive are AIPAC, JTRIG (UK propaganda), Big Pharma, the GOPee (McConnell's boys especially), and vulture funds.

Jimmy Wales should have guessed that the minute he made it "the encyclopedia anyone can edit" he guaranteed that it would eventually be hijacked by special interests, usually malicious ones.

[csziggy]

9. Whoever fixed the photo must have missed this paragraph

On January 21, 2017, Spicer held his first press briefing as White House Press Secretary. He blasted the media for allegedly underestimating the size of the crowds for President Trump's inaugural ceremony and stated that the ceremony had drawn the "largest audience, ever to witness an inauguration, period."[16] The statement was false.[17] Spicer also gave incorrect information about the use of white floor coverings during the inauguration. He stated that they were used for the first time during the Trump inauguration and were to blame for a visual effect that made the audience look smaller. The white floor coverings, however, had been used in 2013 when Obama was sworn in for the second term.[18] Spicer took no questions from the media at the press briefing.[16] In response to the briefing, conservative political analyst Bill Kristol wrote: "It is embarrassing, as an American, to watch this briefing by Sean Spicer from the podium at the White House."[19] However, Trump's campaign strategist and counselor, Kellyanne Conway, defended Spicer's inaccurate statements, telling NBC's Chuck Todd that the press secretary was simply giving "alternative facts" and that Trump's crowd numbers could not be proved nor quantified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Spicer#Trump_administration

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. jeeeezzzuusssss

[Jim Lane]

14. No, it wasn't missed. The statement is perfectly proper.

Wikipedia policy is NOT "suppress facts that reflect negatively on powerful people." The policy is simply that articles must report facts, not take sides.

The article now states, "According to available data, Spicer's statements were inaccurate." Also per policy, it provides a citation (to CNN).

A photo of Baghdad Bob in the Spicer bio will never be proper. On other matters, however, progressives who are willing to do the work of finding sources to cite can include the facts that support our side, and those edits will generally stick.

[Oneironaut]

11. If real, I cannot support this.

Keeping Wikipedia relatively bias-free is a difficult process. It should be a scholarly source of information, not a place for pranks. Deface other websites, but not Wikipedia.

That is, unless if you support seeing opinions provided as fact on this scholarly resource. It's tiresome enough to see that everywhere else on the internet and on the TV. The editors there work hard to keep crap like "Obama is a devout Muslim" (source: Breitbart) off of the website.

This is from someone who used the exact phrase "Baghdad Sean" yesterday. Whenever I see Wikipedia defaced, I get severely annoyed.

[tavernier]

12. Ok, That's Funny!

I expect to see much more of this insulting and unacceptable behavior in the future.