Ea Staffer rewrites EA History on Wikipedia (joystiq.com)

[8th lutz]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/16/ea-staff...t-on-wikipedia/

 

We already know that EA changes its screenshots, but is somebody trying to rewrite its history? Shacknews reports somebody with an IP address linked to the Electronic Arts Redwood City HQ is going into the EA Wikipedia page and altering the past. Using a tool called Wikipedia Scanner made by Cal Tech student Virgil Griffith, they discovered this IP address has made numerous alterations, the most damning occurred on Nov. 20, '06 when they erased Trip Hawkins as founder of the company. Later on, the same IP address added a paragraph emphasizing the work of Larry Probst, current EA chairman, and attempted to remove the scandalous EA Spouse saga.

 

Shacknews concludes saying that the IP address is responsible for one third of the 1,351 changes made by EA-registered IPs. Many of the changes made by the EA IPs have since been reversed by the Wikipedia community. EA would not comment on the issue. Maybe this person at EA is just striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that their next leap ... will be the leap home -- if those pesky Wikipedia people would just stop changing history back to the way it originally happened.

[2600Lives]

EA = The Government.

 

Hey, let's change history to suit our vision of things! Yay!

[Jess Ragan]

What shitheads! This demonstrates the importance of net neutrality... without it, ALL the information on the Internet would be written by corporate ass-kissers. Go to hell, Electronic Arts!

[Snider-man]

And it's for precisely these reasons I don't let any of my authors use Wikipedia as a source in any paper, manuscript or book I'm editing. Although useful and thorough, Wiki is so EASILY altered by anyone with an agenda.

 

Remember: All Wikipedia entries should be taken with a grain of salt.

[chrisbid]

And it's for precisely these reasons I don't let any of my authors use Wikipedia as a source in any paper, manuscript or book I'm editing. Although useful and thorough, Wiki is so EASILY altered by anyone with an agenda.

 

Remember: All Wikipedia entries should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

 

in the higher quality articles, the sources are properly quoted. if that is the case, then its a great tool to get better sources on that particular subject

[Snider-man]

And it's for precisely these reasons I don't let any of my authors use Wikipedia as a source in any paper, manuscript or book I'm editing. Although useful and thorough, Wiki is so EASILY altered by anyone with an agenda.

 

Remember: All Wikipedia entries should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

 

in the higher quality articles, the sources are properly quoted. if that is the case, then its a great tool to get better sources on that particular subject

Ah, yes. Then I would suggest using the cited sources then rather than Wiki itself. But far too many folks treat Wiki like an online encyclopedia, and - frankly - it's not.

[Lemmi]

i posted this at the 3do zero forums

 

what a horrible posting system shacknews has, just terrrrrible

 

i havent bought a new EA game since NHL 97 for the Genesis, everything else has been 2nd hand

the fighting over a wiki page doesnt affect me at all, as i would never look at the EA page anyway, the company is dead to me as is all modern gaming systems after the DC

[PressureCooker2600]

Electronic Arts USED to be good...

 

But then they sold their eternal soul to the devil.

[Artlover]

i posted this at the 3do zero forums

 

i havent bought a new EA game since NHL 97 for the Genesis, everything else has been 2nd hand

I think the last EA game I bought was Marble Madness for the C64.

[carmel_andrews]

If EA want to change history, perhaps they should do the follwoing

 

Say they had nothing to do with classic games like Racing destruction set, one on one and the Archon series

 

Nothing to do with Marble Madness (the game that launched the amiga)

 

Nothing to do with Dan Silva's project 'Prism' which became the most sought after paint program of the amiga/st era called 'Deluxe Paint'

 

And also nothing to do with Bill Budge and PCS/Raster blaster

[Atari5200]

i have mixed emotions on EA, I like Need for Speed series, I like Madden, though I only need 1 since the game is essentially the same every year, but the major turn off I had was getting Madden 06 for the PSP and seeing how buggy it was. How it would lock up and reset in the middle of a franchise, and online never did work on my version. Then hearing about their other games, it really does turn me off to buying their product and I haven't bought anything since I got Need for speed most wanted probably a good 7 months ago, but I will buy their product, I just end up waiting a long time, reading a lot of reviews, and keeping an ear out for bugs and other quality issues before I purchase the software.

[Retro Rogue]

Bah, its nothing new and has been around since long before Wikipedia. How many corporations and industry "luminaries" have tried to rewrite history in their press releases, interviews, etc. over the years? That's what fact checking and multiple source are for, journalism 101.

Edited August 21, 2007 by wgungfu

[Lemmi]

Bah, its nothing new and has been around since long before Wikipedia. How many corporations and industry "luminaries" have tried to rewrite history in their press releases, interviews, etc. over the years? That's what fact checking and multiple source are for, journalism 101.

 

 

true they would have to change all the 3DO info out there also that states that he founded EA