List of media personalities who have vandalised Wikipedia

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A number of media personalities have either strongly encouraged people to vandalise, or have actually vandalised, . These people include:
* Stephen Colbert, television comedian, strongly encouraged viewers to vandalise the Elephants article, instructing them to write that the number of elephants has recently tripled in order to confound liberal scientists.
* Sarah Lane, on the live June 12, 2003 episode of The Screen Savers, wrote on the page on monkeypox: "Sarah Lane is totally cool and does not have monkeypox." She later wrote "Sarah Lane is a cool Screen Saver. Down with Monkeypox."
* Scott Mills and Mark Chapman, BBC Radio 1 DJs both vandalised and strongly encouraged their listeners to vandalise the article on Edith Bowman.
* Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail journalist, wrote a news article on how he vandalised the human article, and then how a contributor provided a polite response asking him to stop. He wrote that the article "launch into a 7,000-word list of things that most bipedal primates are already aware of" and roundly criticised it for making obvious statements. Tossell said that, "I snapped. I clicked the 'Edit' button, and anonymously revised that first line, so now it began, 'Humans -- hey! That's us!' And off I surfed, content that I'd given the self-righteous encyclopedians a poke in the ear."
* Eric Zorn, journalist for the Chicago Tribune, created the article Zorn's law (like a Godwin's law), but it was soon deleted.
* According to NBC-owned-and-operated television station WCAU in Philadelphia, network anchorman and reporter Vince DeMentri vandalized his own article to say he had 27 children. The WCAU article says that "his IP address was registered for security purposes", which is misleading: his IP address was recorded in the article's history page, as is always the case when an editor has not logged in with a account.
* included a faux clip of him vandalising the article of Atlantic Records on the music video for his single "White & Nerdy"; this was probably intended to be realized as a "revenge" of sorts against the record label for blocking the release of the parody "You're Pitiful" on his album Straight Outta Lynwood. This "revenge" was then enacted on the Atlantic Records article by several editors.
* Alexander M.C. Halavais, assistant professor of communications at Quinnipiac University, added inaccurate material to 13 articles in an attempt to test 's accuracy.
*Ryan North, online web-comic writer, has twice been involved in vandalism. The first act occurred on July 25, 2006, when he changed the article on Evil to read "Irish Evil." More recently, on November 8, 2006, he created a tongue-in-cheek webpage imploring vandals to only vandalise the article concerning chickens, thereby making completely factually reliable for "every topic in the universe except chickens".
*The Guardian newspaper's online column, The Fiver edited Chelsea F.C. winger Arjen Robben's profile to say that he "is an accomplished scuba diver, a model-submarine enthusiast and the owner of a pet parrot named Greg Louganis" to suggest that he dives, or simulates being fouled to con referees.
*Mark Hinson of the Tallahassee Democrat says that he vandalised Bay County, Florida by adding the text "In 1990, Bay County issued a fatwa condemning the film 'Pretty Woman' for its sunny portrayal of prostitution. Though, Bay County did add that Julia Roberts looked totally hot in that polka-dot dress." Also wrote that he vandalised Calhoun County with the text "Calhoun County was created in 1838 and was named for Rocky 'Raccoon' Calhoun. In 1999, Calhoun County was thoroughly disappointed with Thomas Harris' sequel 'Hannibal' and felt it pandered to readers." The final article he writes about vandalising is Liberty County, Florida, with the text "Liberty County was created in 1855. It was named for the popular American ideal, liberty. In 2006, Liberty County issued an edict questioning why Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' album was so universally praised by critics. It was good, but Liberty County still thinks Dylan's 'Street Legal' is an overlooked gem." His article severely criticises for forcing students to use as gospel and not check their facts.
* The Sydney Morning Herald vandalised . Their "Stay In Touch" column vandalised Newspapers after noticing that Aspirin was in a vandalised state
* On 14 January 2007, Craig Reucassel and Chris Taylor, hosts of Triple J's Bloody Sunday radio show, after commenting on inaccuracy of their own articles the previous week, encouraged listeners to vandalise the Tara Reid article, which resulted in that article's semi-protection.

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