# Odd Wikipedia Bio on Patty Mills of San Antonio Spurs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-wikipedia-bio-on-patty-mills-of-san-antonio-spurs/683591 "2014-03-13T02:33:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-wikipedia-bio-on-patty-mills-of-san-antonio-spurs/683591/1 "2014-03-13T02:33:31Z")
Patty Mills is a guard for the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. He was also somewhat prominent when he played for St. Mary’s College a few years ago. I would expect a much better bio on him in Wikipedia. This is the strangest first paragraph that I have ever seen: > **[Patty Mills](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Mills#/search)** > > Patrick Sammy Mills AM is an Australian professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). > Mills was born and raised in Canberra, and is of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian descent. In 2007, he became the third Indigenous basketball player to play for the Australian national team. Mills was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 55th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft after playing two years of college basketball for the... ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-wikipedia-bio-on-patty-mills-of-san-antonio-spurs/683591/2 "2014-03-13T03:25:12Z")
I clicked on your link, and don’t see anything strange about that first paragraph. Was it edited already, or am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-wikipedia-bio-on-patty-mills-of-san-antonio-spurs/683591/3 "2014-03-13T03:28:36Z")
The _second_ paragraph was vandalized and reverted, but I don’t see anything wrong with the first paragraph. ---
**Author:** ![Zagalejo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Zagalejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zagalejo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-wikipedia-bio-on-patty-mills-of-san-antonio-spurs/683591/4 "2014-03-13T03:33:12Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I clicked on your link, and don’t see anything strange about that first paragraph. Was it edited already, or am I missing something? I removed the vandalism after reading the post here. The article said, “He is set to win the Most Improved Scoring Towel Wave award for 2014, having improved his play off the bench, and also for his mentoring of Austin Daye in the sacred art of the towel wave.” Sadly, many Wikipedia pages aren’t properly monitored, and stuff like this can remain for a while. The content in question was live for two days. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-wikipedia-bio-on-patty-mills-of-san-antonio-spurs/683591/5 "2014-03-13T10:39:06Z")
Ah, that explains it. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-wikipedia-bio-on-patty-mills-of-san-antonio-spurs/683591/6 "2014-03-13T16:15:18Z")
This is why it’s usually a good idea to go to the history tab and link it from there, so future edits won’t ruin it. Like so: [Patty Mills - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patty_Mills&oldid=599074746)