It’s impossible for Washington politicians to NOT cheat and lie
This is just the sleeziest thing I’ve heard coming out of Washington in a long time. Apparently, members of both houses of Congress are having their staffers break the rules and change their Wikipedia entries in their favor:
Among the revisionism taking place, Senator Joe Biden’s office removed a reference to a 1996 plagiarism scandal, while California staffers took out a reference to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s 1997 conflict of interest issue over her husband’s investments in China. An aide for Representative Marty Meehan replaced his Wikipedia biography with a flattering official one and removed a reference about a pledge by the seven-term congressman to serve only four terms.
The Wikinews reporters also found a handful of entries vandalised by Washington politicos, including a description of Senator Tom Coburn as being voted “the most annoying senator by his peers in Congress”.
Wikipedia relies on the good will and basic honesy of its users. Which gives politicians a perfect opportunity to lie and take advantage.
Feh. On both their houses.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
I’m sure that now the word is out, those edits will be swiftly reverted, if they haven’t been already. Wikipedians get their britches in a bind over POV edits…
Those politicians make me ashamed to be human. Have they and the staffers have no shame?
[...] I removed the ’suggest a link’ form now, since I am not maintaining the database any longer. I used the database mainly as an online bookmark storage for myself but new services like del.icio.us are much more flexible. This is another unfortunate example of marketing driven abuse of open and trusting systems on the internet. Also del.icio.us has this problem as this post by brian illustrates and we all read about the recent manipulations within wikipedia. [...]