you were responsible for this weren't you?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:08, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Not yet, he wasn't
But Wikipedia is, in theory, open for anybody to contribute to...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:09, Reply)

I've tried that before
they tend to frown on outright lies
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:10, Reply)

A friend of mine tried it
And they described it as, among other things, "Patent Nonsense," which I think must be something of an achievement in itself...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:12, Reply)

I can't remember what I changed now
it took ages though, and was plausibly written. Didn't last long :-(
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:13, Reply)

how do people get away with posting that celebrities have died when they haven't then?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:30, Reply)

I don't know, but I suspect if it's just an edit to an existing article
It can go unnoticed for long enough that a rumour can spread.

My friend's mistake was to write an entire biography of his friend, entitled, "[NAME], the Cross-Dressing Physicist."

You can see why it didn't get past the mods.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:32, Reply)