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Prominent Dutch Catholics revolt against 'destructive' deachings of Pope Francis

Leading Dutch Catholics are petitioning their bishops to warn Pope Francis (pictured) about his "destructive" teachings and urge him to not commit "serious errors" against the Faith.

Intellectuals and priests have signed the petition, among them the famous psychologist Gerard Aardweg and [Physics] Professor Wilhelmus Witteman of the Technical University of Twente."

The petition reportedly list some of the scandalous actions of Pope Francis, including his publication Amoris Laetitia, which allows for couples living in adultery to receive Communion at Mass; his support for "the pro-death politicians Emma Bonino and Lilianne Ploumen"; his support for female deacons, married priests, and contraception; his praise for Martin Luther; and his deal-making with the Communist Chinese to recognize the fasle church there, the Catholic Patriotic Association.

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Wikipedia was edited to show Donald Trump as President -- of the Confederacy

This report highlights the ease with which Wikipedia can be manipulated. Nearly anyone can edit entries.

Someone has edited the often inaccurate online encyclopedia to say that Donald Trump is President of the Confederacy.

The report at the link below supposes that the edit came after Trump's press conference, where he blamed "both sides" for the violence that occurred in Charlottesville over the weekend.

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His job is to keep Hillary’s Wikipedia page whitewashed

A report at the link below says that despite the steady wave of scandals that have begun to erode even the New York Times’ portrayal of Hillary Clinton, her image remains unblemished on Wikipedia.

Since he first started editing her page in June 2005, Hillary’s “Wikipedia watchdog" has been guarding against slanders, accusations, unfair assumptions, and distortions on the high-traffic, heavily footnoted, highly policed Hillary Rodham Clinton Wikipedia page.

His name is Jonathan Schilling and he guards her Wikipedia listing against unauthorized editing.

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Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia started by Jimmy Wales 15 years ago contains nearly 5 million articles.

Despite what Wikipedia claims, nearly anyone can add a Wikipedia article, or edit an existing Wikipedia article.

If no one could alter Wikipedia articles why would Hillary Clinton need to have a dedicated watchdog keeping her entry ‘squeaky’ clean?

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Wikipedia: the most quoted - least accurate site on the web

We found so many negative reports about Wikipedia that we created a special category for them on this blog. The links in some of the older reports have expired.

The Hillary Wikipedia page editing report is here. The most notable Wikipedia hoaxes can be found here

Russia edits Wikipedia to change the MH-17 airliner story

The Russian government has edited the story of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Russia has reportedly removed sections of the story that accuse the Russian government of providing "terrorists" with missiles that were used to down the civilian airliner.

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Wikipedia has always been easy to edit and manipulate. We have posted so many reports about editing and manipulating Wikipedia that we created a separate category for all of the gaffes relating to the free online encyclopedia.

One of the notable Wikipedia breakdown was the report of 80,000 entries by a 24-year-old Canadian man.

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Link here and here to reports of Wikipedia editing by the Russian government.

Getting rid of those Wikipedia donation request banners

Wikipedia has shown photos of the online encyclopedia's creator Jimmy Wales in banners requesting donations as shown above.

Recently the banners no longer show photos of Jimmy Wales. They now show photos of Wikipedia authors and editors as shown below.

Getting rid of them is still as easy as clicking on the "x" in the box located in the upper right of the banner.

Clicking the "x" will set a cookie that makes the personal appeal go away for good -- or until the next time you dump all of your cookies.

We wonder if the young college dropout, who claimed to be a college professor with degrees in theology and canon law, will be on one of the donation request banners.

The college dropout mentioned above made more than 20,000 entries and/or changes in Wikipedia articles as reported here and here.

How to get rid of the Jimmy Wales photo on top of Wikipedia pages

To get rid of the photo of Wikipedia's creator Jimmy Wales, click on the "x" in the box located in the upper right of the banner that shows Jimmy Wales begging for donations.

Actually, a Wikipedia programmer's face has appeared recently with the same request for donations. The same "kill method" should work for whoever appears on the Wikipedia banner begging for donations.

Clicking the "x" box in the beg for donations banner will set a cookie that makes the personal appeal go away for good -- or until you dump all of your cookies.

We have posted several reports about the inaccuracies found in Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, since 2006. Our most recent is here.

Wikipedia the error-prone web encyclopedia

Wikipedia is the web encyclopedia that has been known for multitudes of errors.

This is not surprising since, at the beginning, nearly anyone could make an entry or edit an entry.

Not much has changed as the following message appeared in our last Wikipedia search:

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.

It needs additional references or sources for verification. Tagged since September 2010.

Its neutrality is disputed. Tagged since September 2010.

Its factual accuracy is disputed. Tagged since October 2009.

The search was for House of Windsor

How can a document like this be of much use?

We have posted several reports about Wikipedia beginning in June, 2006. We had so many Wikipedia postings (mostly unflattering) that we created a separate "Wikipedia" category which can be found on the left hand sidebar.

Is Wikipedia still filled with errors?

Shown above is a typical plea for donations by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

Wikipedia is the widely read, online, multi-authored, error prone encyclopedia.

With so many inaccuracies found on Wikipedia entries, we created a special category (tag) for them.

Our categories (tags) can be found on the left sidebar.

Although most of the entries in Wikipedia are accurate, you can also expect to find a certain amount of:

Inaccurate editing
Failure to check facts
Personal political agendas
Questionable sources
Lack of objectivity
Material that is completely fabricated

Founder Jimmy Wales once told students not to use Wikipedia as reference material for school work because of inaccuracies.

College professors have been known to give students a failing grade just for referencing Wikipedia.

Wikipedia reported premature death of Rush Limbaugh

From a report at the first link below:

Shortly after the news broke that the conservative political radio talk show host was hospitalized, Wikipedia updated his page – and pronounced him dead.

If the report is correct, Wikipedia was prepared for the worst when it came to Rush Limbaugh. Maybe a little too well prepared.

Reportedly the Wikipedia entry showed the following entry a little after midnight:

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (pronounced /ˈlɪmbɔː/;born January 12, 1951, died December 30, 2009) is an American radio host and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States. It airs throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks.

Rush, although in a Honolulu hospital, was very much alive. About 15 minutes later Wikipedia pronounced him alive, altering their bio by removing the information that he had died.

This illustrates what can happen when it doesn’t take much more than a computer, Internet service and a word processor to post nearly anything you want on Wikipedia - the most quoted yet least accurate site on the web.

Top illustrate just how bad Wikipedia is, founder Jimmy Wales has warned students not to refer to Wikipedia as it can seriously damage their grades (see third link below).

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Wikipedia founder is asking for donations

An appeal from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, appears each time the online encyclopedia is accessed.

Mr. Wales (shown above) is asking for financial donations to support Wikipedia, which he says is the largest encyclopedia in human history.

By allowing anyone to enter or alter data during most of its eight years of existence, Wikipedia is also the most inaccurate encyclopedia in human history.

We have documented some of the Wikipedia problems. We even added a category named Wikipedia.

One of the recent entries in our Wikipedia category was titled, Wikipedia declared Ted Kennedy death prematurely.

Another is titled, Wikipedia: the most quoted - least accurate site on the web.

Other entries deal with problems students have using Wikipedia as a research source including automatic failing grades from some college professors when they learn Wikipedia was referenced.

The Wikipedia appeal for donations can be found here.