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The "The Hoya" article was already covered in a previous article of the Signpost (it's more than two years old). Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:16, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks HaeB, not sure how that got in there. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 08:26, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I've just removed the story about the NZ Justice minister as it was totally wrong. It claimed the story was about the "Justice Minister’s editing of Wikipedia" which is not true - there's no suggestion that Ms Collins was editing Wikipedia. The statement that someone in her office "was found to edit her article along with several others related to her political activities" is also not in the story, and is actually not true. The story rightly says that someone in her office edited her article while also identifying themselves. The claims of Mr Brooking that the removal of material from various articles was conducted by Ms Collins staff are not correct - what has happened is that various editors (including myself) have removed the blatant BLP violations and POV-pushing Mr Brooking was posting in articles concerning the NZ justice system, and he's complaining about this after his sockpuppet accounts were also blocked. It's a shame that this was published without following up on the article's edit history, or even accurately reporting what the news story said. Please see the posts on Mr Brooking's main account's talk page at User talk:Offender9000‎ for background what's been going on here. Nick-D (talk) 08:41, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I support Nick-D's removal of this entry. A staffer of Judith Collins edited the Collins article, but only to add a better photo as was requested on the talk page. They also removed a paragraph from the David Bain article that they considered defamatory, but after the material was restored they did not edit war but conducted a civil discussion on a talk page. See also Critic claims censorship on Collins Wiki which contains quotes from me.-gadfium 09:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

For on-wiki context, there is also WP:AN#On-wiki badness moves to major newspaper. I apologize for not catching these pre-publication, but perhaps we'll be able to do a more accurate and more intriguing investigation in a full piece next week. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 16:10, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

• WRT Ana Toni, yes but has she edited Wikipedia before? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 08:58, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

  A nice piece on our newest Trustee. She was not an editor before joining the Foundation; but a reader and user. She has edited wikis before - she did so to vote on the recognition of Wikimedia Uruguay :) – SJ + 20:25, 16 July 2013 (UTC)