# Wikipedia article locked after mention on TV show?

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**Created:** [May 12, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-locked-after-mention-on-tv-show/814053 "2018-05-12T15:57:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-locked-after-mention-on-tv-show/814053/1 "2018-05-12T15:57:01Z")

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We recently came across a news article about some recent TV show where the characters mentioned “look it up on Wikipedia”, and the article got so much vandalism that the article had to be locked. I think I saw the show, because t the time I thought about looking up…whatever it was.

But neither of us can remember which news site had the article, nor what the show was. It was this week, not something older ( I know this happened before, this isn’t about that).

Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-locked-after-mention-on-tv-show/814053/2 "2018-05-12T16:30:51Z")

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I’ll double check later, but I thought it was “Roseanne” talking about her new (Muslim) neighbors having a huge amount of fertilizer bags on their front lawn.

I shall return.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-locked-after-mention-on-tv-show/814053/3 "2018-05-13T20:02:17Z")

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It definitely wouldn’t be the first such occurrence. Weird Al Yankovic had an image of himself vandalizing the Atlantic Records wiki page (replacing the contents with YOU SUCK!) in his _White & Nerdy_ video. Copycats began doing this for real so much, the page had to be locked.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-locked-after-mention-on-tv-show/814053/4 "2018-05-13T21:07:11Z")

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I remember Stephen Colbert (back when he was in character) encouraging people to vandalize the page on elephants. [Here’s an official page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiality_and_Other_Tripling_Elephants).

> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> It definitely wouldn’t be the first such occurrence. Weird Al Yankovic had an image of himself vandalizing the Atlantic Records wiki page (replacing the contents with YOU SUCK!) in his _White & Nerdy_ video. Copycats began doing this for real so much, the page had to be locked.

Due to the events behind [this song](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Pitiful).