Especially in articles that aren’t edited that often wrong claims can remain quite long. That Hawes is politically interested and rather conservative is true, the rest interpretation.

There was a funny story about a village in England which wondered why tourist numbers dropped. Someone had changed their Wikipedia page and included horrible wrong claims in vivid detail.

Personally I only write Wikipedia stuff that might somehow reflect my opinion (which is hard to avoid even if you want it) but is at least the truth and verifiable by sources. Besides updating and translating some articles about fairly unknown players e.g. I think I’m one of the last people on earth to care about Adam “The Stache” Morrison. Most of what I’ve written about his ACL injury a year ago is still in there, almost word for word. No one updated anything substantial over the year – mainly because the media also forgot about him. And in the paragraph I wrote I included a little snide remark “while defending Luke Walton”, which is entirely true if you look at the video but still nobody should twist his knee defending Walton… The Zags are your team, right?

I think I also helped the career of Joey Dorsey by adding that he was ejected in summer league while not being in uniform (should be a new achievement), costing his team the game in the process. It’s even Blazer-related, since we had to trade him to get Batum.

Non-NBA related, I also included the criminal record of Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, which again is verifiable but not very nice ;-)
I thought he deserved it, since in an interview with the Financial Times he stated that Wikipedia was his favorite website. “I love the way it aggregates information from different people.” You are welcome.

A couple of months ago I consulted Wikipedia trying to find out how to spell Przybilla. The article includes this line:

“While in Portland, his nicknames have included: "Joel Dolla-Dolla-Billa”, “Przybila the Thrilla”, " Joel Daddy", “White Kong”, “Joel Zilla”, “Ghostface Pryzbilla,” and many other nicknames that go with his thug personality.