THE WIKIPEDIA entry of Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Taguig-Pateros Representative Alan Peter Cayetano has apparently been defaced. A check on the History tab that shows all the changes that have been made to Cayetano’s Wikipedia entry shows that the defacing was made on May 16.
Under the “Education and other personal information” section, the user added this entry: Allan Peter Cayetano is also known as “Apeng Daldal”, “KSP Musmos” and “Walking Microphone.”
Under “Work Experience,” the user added: Stand up comedian at Laughline (1995-97).
Meanwhile, under “Voting record,” the user added the entry: Walang naisulat na batas. Busy sa papansin sa media. [Did not write any laws. Busy getting the media attention.]
The changes to these three sections were all made on May 16, using the same IP address.
Wikipedia is a user-generated online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Entries on sensitive topics that are prone to vandalism, or which have been repeatedly defaced, may be locked by Wikipedia administrators so that changes can’t be made to the entry.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Alan Peter Cayetano like most who run for senator have prepared themselves beforehand how to be popular among the people and the best way is through the media. Magdaldal ka lang dyan nang magdaldal with the right PR man (of course with the right price) “hola” and you’re in. How will you be able to fell the sentiments of the poor when you have not gone through the life being a poor from childhood. Huwag na tayong magplastikan.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:13 am
We all have the responsibility to educate our electorate regarding people who are users like alan cayetano and francis escudero. they are good at fooling our people by using their being “matapang” effect to give false hope to them. nene pementel, koko pementel, loren legarda, jambi madrigal, abegail binay are people who also belong to this species.
they mislead the masses by indirectly saying the cause of poverty are the leaders. we need to tell our people that collectively we can solve the problem of our country by doing our part not by depending the trapo way of alan cayetano and chiz escudero. /:
May 17th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
maninggerzee,
The vandalisms were done by an unregistered Wikipedia user (instead of a user name, they appear as an IP address on the article’s “History” records). This isn’t unique to the Alan Peter Cayetano article but happens on other articles as well. To be honest, the vandalized Alan Peter Cayetano was “mild” compared to other articles…there are far worse examples, and some articles are bait for people who have nothing else to do but deface Wikipedia articles (but I won’t mention specific examples to pre-empt would-be vandals…suffice it to say that people on the news are frequent vandal targets.)
Fortunately, most vandalisms on Wikipedia can and will be reverted or deleted (you yourself can do this even if you have not registered a Wikipedia account), especially if the page is being placed on a registered user’s watchlist. I myself have the Alan Peter Cayetano article on my watchlist, as well as that of the other candidates for senator.
Content disputes and biased articles are a different matter, though….
May 17th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Cayetano has no shame. At the start of the campaign, he denied that his family was building a dynasty. Then why is his wife running for the congressional position he vacated?
He is all talk but no action. Unfortunately he managed to fool the voters into putting him in Senate. Now watch while he spends the next 6 years talking and talking on TV while doing nothing to help our country.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
wawa ka naman si bhabes & takya mabuhay kayo dahil karapatdapat kayo sa IDOL nyo baho bunganga