Hoovey689

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Daimler caught editing negative content from own Wikipedia page?

Obviously, we spend a lot of time trawling the Internet looking for interesting automotive news. When we find it, we're often curious to get a little more backstory. Sometimes we need some of the big players identified, due to our own lack of familiarity with what's going on in the larger world of pop culture that has nothing to do with cars. For that task, we occasionally rely on Wikipedia to help us dig up additional sources – probably just the same as you do.

Thus, we're glad to see a Daimler employee called out for an alleged misdeed, which is not just against Wikipedia's policies, but frankly, runs counter to the whole spirit of the not-for-profit, crowd-sourced Internet encyclopedia. According to a report by The Local, someone with a Daimler IP address altered the company's German-language Wikipedia page, seemingly intent on removing unflattering passages. The section in question concerned a "Worst EU Lobbying Award" that the parent of the Mercedes-Benz brand received in 2007, along with BMW and Porsche, for "a concerted campaign to 'dilute and delay CO2 reduction targets.'"

A Daimler spokesman is deflecting the incident by blaming it on employees, calling the actions "independent" and "private," insinuating that they were not part of an official directive from the company itself. Apparently changes to other Wikipedia pages were made at the same time, those concerning the cereal muesli and Victoria, the Crown Princess of Sweden, suggesting there could be something to spokesman's assertion.

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/03/12/d...ikipedia-page/

rominl

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wow what a stupid employee. i mean, at least do it when you aren't at work. but then again if he was smarter he probably wouldn't have done it in the beginning. can't really understand those stupid people who do things and think they can get away with it, they have no idea how smart technology can be these days

spwolf

yeah, still, everything there is gray area... someone who doesnt like daimler can write up what they want, point out negative things, etc.

for our company (small), someone has written an really nice page before, and then someone deleted it as an "ad", and now there are 2 sentences in our wiki page while competition has 50 paragraphs.

DriftGirl

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Wikipedia should NEVER be considered as FACT. People can just say whatever they want without any fact checking

Someone put a page up of me on Wikipedia...With wrong info. Id go change it, but I really dont care.