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Pro golfer sues over Wikipedia postings

Anonymous Coward

Isnt this what the internet is for? 

Thats what the internet is for, slandering others anonymously.

Seriously though, I hadn't seen nor heard about this until this morning. Had he not decided to take make the news, I wouldn't know. All rumours tend to be based on some fact, and by challenging them with a lawsuit, you only draw attention to them.

Couldn't he try.... editing the Wikipedia page?

Matt White

now it has attention... 

Fair point - he could well edit it back, but now he's drawn attention to it and isnt taking it with the large block of salt everyone else does when viewing wiki pages I cant help feeling he`s leaving himself wide open to more spurious edits from those jolly internet wags who just love winding people up - how many lawsuits is this guy prepared to file I wonder? Gonna be a lot of IP's he has to trace :-)