Mark Ellen
Posted by Twangothan on 17 April 2008 - 11:24am.
Has someone been "at" Ello's Wiki entry since the discussion on the 'cast? Allotment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ellen
As it happens I did read it a while ago and this is definately a new entry!
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But what is/was his relationship to Barbara Ellen?
A question posed in the "niche" strand
Wiki horseplay
I love it when people gently muck about with Wikipedia items like this, top quality.
My favourite was on David Cotterill (Wigan Athletic and Wales striker) wiki page. For a while one person kept on posting that Cotterill was brought up by a pack of wolves on the outskirts of Bristol. People kept correcting it and he kept re-posting it. Whenever he plays for Wales I remember the posting, he does look a bit feral you know........
Another good one
Pete Sinfield, erstwhile King Crim lyricist, has this entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sinfield
Influenced by Readers Digest and Pam Ayres, apparently!
Then of course there's the splendid Uncyclopedia (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). Look up Robert Fripp and his kitten-huffing habit on there. Much more interesting than the truth.
I once
altered the page for 'Aglet' (the plasticy bit at the end of a shoelace) to include the fact that they were also referred to as 'Nonces' in an effort to illustrate to a friend why Wikipedia should only be used as cross-reference material and not as a be all and end all font of knowledge.
The edit was on there for about 6 months.
Ronnie Hazlehurst strikes again
It was Ronnie Hazlehurst who was the original spoof which caught out the Obituary editors:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/oct/12/guardianobituaries.obituaries
And they have the cheek to say "preposterous online hoax"-it fooled them well enough
It gets better!
Rats for lunch?
Citation needed
He should get Mike Scott to update it.
My favourite evil edit on Wikipedia...
This was posted on Chris Jarvis' page on Wikipedia (if you don't own a Cbeebies-watching toddler, you're probably scratching your head)
"In 1997, Chris was part of the presenting team on the short-lived "Saturday morning"-esque programme, The Friday Zone (which itself was broadcast on Friday afternoons). Chris released a single called "Glasses" as a spin-off from the programme, to raise money for Comic Relief. It was a dismal failure, owing mostly to the fact that Chris has no talent."
Well, it made me laugh. Someone posted that in Feb, and a Chris Jarvis fan removed that last sentence a week later.
Not skinheads...
Wasn't it the Aldershot wing of the Hell's Angels who robbed him at KFC?
And is it just me or is there something a little unsettling about all this?
Very unsettling
I just edited it (or sub-edited it - "adgitated", indeed) myself, with no requirement to identify myself or register as an editor or anything. My IP address now appears in the edit history, true, but I'm on a cable router and my IP's a floater, so theoretically I could do untold damage with little chance of ever being caught. (And if I went to a Web cafes or used a laptop at random WiFi locations, "little" would be no".)
I'm all for interactive Web 2.0 accessibility blah blah, but isn't this taking it a bit far?