Catholic Culture
The last few days a little editing war has been going on on Maciel's wikipedia page. A paragraph was added early on the morning of the Jan. 28, by an IP address from Hartford, CT. It was removed by someone using a registered account (so you can't trace where he's from), then restored by an IP address from the law firm of Wilmer Hale in Washington DC. As of right now, it's been removed again.
Here is the page Wikipedia: Marcial Maciel
My Comment
As someone with 3400 edits on Wikipedia, let me explain what goes on on articles in the news such as 9/11, Terri Schiavo, and Sarah Palin. The editing becomes tendentious because it becomes impossible to have an objective distance from the material and, of course, advocates have the greatest interest in their contributions remaining in the article. The winners typically are the ones with the most idle time on their hands rather than the most objective point of view.
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