I found the following is information about my hometown, Swinford, on the website Wikipedia, the comments were available online and Local Councillor, Joe Mellett was informed about the entries.
Subsequently, the comments were referenced by Dara O’Brien on The Panel.
· Lars Ulrich of Metallica fame once passed through Swinford and bought a mars bar in what was then “Cards and Gifts”. He did not buy a beverage.
· Swinford is not regarded as a safe place to rear children, especially babies. Every so often, a baby skeleton is found that appears to have been gnawed at. These events are attributed to "The Babyeater”.
· Rowan Gallagher, a young local, recently showed the signs of the stigmata while attending mass in the local parish church. He attributed this sign to Phelan and began drinking copious amounts of alcohol to "praise Our Lord!"
· The local secondary school has a reputation as a "dumping ground" of poor teachers and general nutters. They are treated with the disdain and disrespect they diserve. Generally, they are Christain fundamentalists, alcoholics and crazies, or a combination of all three.
· Connor Quinn a local carrot harvester grew the biggest carrot in the history of the country last month 13/11/06.
Wikipedia is a perfectly good source for information isn’t it?
So are blogs...
Here is an article on the matter by independent.ie
I will not confirm nor deny any part in the comments that were made on wikipedia during that time.
Despite the somewhat childish nature of the attacks on Wikipedia by persons unknown (although they seem to be based in Co Mayo) Rowan raises an extremely important issue: the value of trustworthy sources. Wikipedia, clearly, is not a trustworthy source. Can the internet be trusted at all? How do you verify a source? What happened to the two sources policy? All good questions, finally, and it only took six days. TF
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