Suntingan staf Kongres Amerika Serikat di Wikipedia

Sejumlah suntingan staf Kongres di Wikipedia (perubahan terhadap ensiklopedia Wikipedia oleh staf Kongres Amerika Serikat yang langsung melibatkan petingginya atau pesaingnya) telah menciptakan kontroversi, terutama pada awal hingga pertengahan 2006. Sejumlah kasus seperti Marty Meehan, Norm Coleman, Conrad Burns,^[1] Susan Collins, dan Joe Biden, telah mendapat perhatian besar dari media.^[2] Selain itu, kasus Gil Gutknecht juga dilaporkan namun kurang mendapat liputan luas.

Informasi biografi berbagai politisi disunting oleh staf mereka sendiri untuk menghapus informasi yang tidak diinginkan (termasuk kutipan peyoratif atau janji kampanye palsu), menambahkan informasi yang diinginkan atau kata-kata yang membanggakan diri, menambahkan informasi negatif terhadap biografi pesaing, atau mengganti artikel sebagian atau seluruhnya dengan biografi yang sudah diubah oleh staf.^[2]

^ Williams, Walt (2007-01-01). "Burns' office may have tampered with Wikipedia entry". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Diakses tanggal 2007-02-13.
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Nate Anderson (January 30, 2006). "Congressional staffers edit boss's bio on Wikipedia". Ars Technica. Diakses tanggal 2008-04-28. The activities documented included:
- rewriting Norm Coleman's article to make more favorable, claimed to be "correcting errors"
- removing from Conrad Burns' article quoted pejorative statements he had made, and replacing them with "glowing tributes" such as "the voice of the farmer"
- removal of unfavorable information from Joe Biden's article

[1] Williams, Walt (2007-01-01). "Burns' office may have tampered with Wikipedia entry". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Diakses tanggal 2007-02-13.

[Ars-2] Nate Anderson (January 30, 2006). "Congressional staffers edit boss's bio on Wikipedia". Ars Technica. Diakses tanggal 2008-04-28. The activities documented included:
rewriting Norm Coleman's article to make more favorable, claimed to be "correcting errors"

removing from Conrad Burns' article quoted pejorative statements he had made, and replacing them with "glowing tributes" such as "the voice of the farmer"

removal of unfavorable information from Joe Biden's article

[3] rewriting Norm Coleman's article to make more favorable, claimed to be "correcting errors"

[4] removing from Conrad Burns' article quoted pejorative statements he had made, and replacing them with "glowing tributes" such as "the voice of the farmer"

[5] removal of unfavorable information from Joe Biden's article

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