Is messing up Wikipedia pages illegal?

It is not a criminal act to vandalise Wikipedia. However, it is against the site’s terms of use to vandalise or otherwise cause disruption. Vandals are blocked from editing, and may also be further banned according to the terms of use.

What happens if you edit Wikipedia without logging in?

If you are not logged in, all your edits are, much more transparently, publicly associated with your IP address at the time of that edit.

Can you edit Wikipedia anonymously?

When you edit a Wikipedia page, you can either log in or complete this task anonymously. If you are logged in, it will display your username and the edit you have made. If you have done so anonymously, it will just record your IP address . Wikipedia does not object to anonymous entries.

Is Wikipedia truly neutral?

Since Wikipedia does not take sides, and because it documents all types of biased points of view, often using biased sources, article content cannot be neutral. Source bias must remain evident and unaffected by editorial revisionism, censorship, whitewashing, or political correctness.

Is Wikipedia politically biased?

Research shows that Wikipedia is prone to Neutral Point of View violations caused by bias from its editors, including systemic bias.

Who has made the most edits on Wikipedia?

Steven Pruitt (born April 17, 1984) is an American Wikipedia editor with the highest number of edits made on the English Wikipedia, at over 4.73 million, having made at least one edit to one-third of all English Wikipedia articles. He has also created more than 33,000 Wikipedia articles.

Did Scientology use Wikipedia to promote the organization?

Wikipedia administrators presented evidence during the case that Scientology-controlled computers were used to promote the organization, using multiple user accounts. One user going by the pseudonym “COFS” admitted this pattern of editing, and stated the edits from Scientology computers would continue.

What is Scientology According to Lewis?

Scientology goes beyond this and refers to their religio-therapeutic practices as religious technology. Lewis wrote, “Scientology sees their psycho-spiritual technology as supplying the missing ingredient in existing technologies—namely, the therapeutic engineering of the human psyche.”

What is Keeping Scientology working (KSW)?

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2015) Keeping Scientology Working (often referred to by Scientologists as KSW) is a Church of Scientology policy letter that serves as the keystone for a series of related policy letters written by church founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Is EarthLink owned by Scientology?

Internet ISP EarthLink was founded by Scientologists Sky Dayton and Reed Slatkin as a Scientology enterprise. The company now distances itself from the views of its founder, who moved on to become CEO of Helio (wireless carrier), formerly known as SK-EarthLink.