# Have you ever edited Wikipedia? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392 "2010-12-26T00:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/21 "2010-12-29T07:06:21Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > I’ve only done it twice. The first was to remove the word “banana” from the text of the 17th Amendment and the second time I edited an article that had a paragraph that was only the word “penis” repeated over and over again. > > I try to make sure my knowledge is put to good use. Ummm, isn’t it a federal crime to remove words from Amendments to the Constitution? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/22 "2010-12-29T11:57:54Z")
I tried to insert a link to [Faggots](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)) into the ‘See Also’ section for Scrapple. It was reverted by some bloody bot or other as ‘suspected vandalism’. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/23 "2010-12-30T02:30:12Z")
I’ve edited a few times, and added a few new articles. Not recently, though. The pleasure of editing Wikipedia went out at around the same time that all the “[citation needed]” tags started getting added. (Not that I’m suggesting a relationship between the two.) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/24 "2010-12-30T02:34:27Z")
A similar recent thread is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=589012). I did once, to correct some egregiously wrong information about Rangsit, which is a community north of Bangkok. For one, it claimed Rangsit was one of Bangkok’s 50 districts, which was complete BS. Although a suburb of the city, it lies squarely inside Pathum Thani province and has never been one of the city of Bangkok’s 50 districts. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/25 "2010-12-30T02:43:57Z")
I correct spelling and grammatical errors when I see them. Also factual errors when I am certain that they are wrong. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/26 "2011-01-03T01:32:26Z")
Here and there. Usually I’m just reverting vandalism, or removing spam. On occasion, I’ve found errors and fixed them (after confirming) or removed unfounded, unsourced rumors. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/27 "2011-01-03T11:55:56Z")
Yes. I also memorized _Holy Grail_ really well; I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/28 "2011-01-03T16:05:26Z")
Ever? Of course - but only for typos and vandalism, except in one case where I think I added a very short sentence to clarify something (I don’t even remember which article, so no idea whether it stuck). ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392/29 "2011-01-03T16:16:03Z")
I have made a fair number of small corrections and additions; I’ve created one new article (for the high school that I went to); and I’ve even made four changes in the Japanese Wikipedia, including creating a redirect page. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-edited-wikipedia/565392.md?page=1)