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Washington Post: Five Senate Offices Fingered in Wikipedia Edits

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 9, 2006 - 3:09am.
Washington - An investigation into partisan edits made to Wikipedia online encyclopedia entries for members of Congress has found that edits could be traced directly to Internet addresses within at least five Senators' offices, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The edits, which included deletions of past controversies and politically motivated insults, prompted Wikipedia to temporarily block access from some Capitol Hill addresses. The investigation by Wikinews traced edits back to addresses within offices for Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). "There were several factual things that were wrong," Tom Steward, a spokesman for Coleman, told The Post, while Biden spokesman Norm Kurz told The Post that changes that were "made to Biden's site by this office were designed to make it more fair and accurate."
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