I sometimes look at Wikipedia for stuff.  I also watch “Colbert Report”.  Naturally, I found it quite the hoot when he used it to “change reality” during one of his segments.  I thought he was joking (as in not really making edits) at first, but someone under his name at the moment that bit was done actually made the edits he mentioned.  That got him temporarily banned from the site (though it looks like the one that blocked him really just wanted some cheap fame).

Funny, amusing, not really that big of a deal.  So what’s my beef?  Click here.

As of 11:09 PM EST, August fifth, 2006, the Wikipedia category listing for “Libertarians” includes — get this — Timothy-Mc-fucking-Veigh*.  I’ve helpfully pointed it out on a screencapture in case anyone reading this doesn’t believe me.  Clearly someone figured out “Wikiality” before Steve did & used it to throw a huge guilt-by-association slant in.

Now, I don’t know the amount of people for whom they might’ve looked at that list and based on his name being there got pushed in the general direction of “man, libertarians are crazy bomber types!”
Far as I’m concerned, one is too many.  People being crass enough to create their own reality like this just serves to undermine open platforms of all types, this goes beyond Wikipedia.
(* - the person who classified McVeigh as a libertarian based it on a random comment he apparently made in response to a PETA publicity stunt where they asked him to pick a vegetarian last meal.  That comment is near the bottom of the page here.  Considering he got inspiration for the Oklahoma City bombing from a white-supremecist wet-dream novel, no rational person could see his problem with the State as being its size rather than its “tolerance” for minorities to exist.)