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# The Wikipedia Hustings
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2007/07/the_wikipedia_hustings/
- Published: 2007-07-07T12:09:32.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T12:40:02.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: elections, new media, Politics, PR, wikipedia

The battle for the next general election is already being fought – [on Wikipedia](http://www.recessmonkey.com/2007/07/06/wiki-wars/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Dawn Butler (Lab – Brent South) and Sarah Teather (LD – Brent East) will be fighting it out for the re-drawn seat of Brent Central at the next election, but online the battle has already started. The conflict is taking place on their Wikipedia entries ([Butler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%5FButler?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), [Teather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%5FTeather?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)), and researchers and party supporters almost definitely involved.
> 
> If you look at the history pages for both entries, and you’ll see a user called Brent Central has been duelling with an anonymous user working in the House of Commons (the [most common](http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2005/11/ip%5Faddresses%5Ffo.asp?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) Parliamentary IP address is 194.60.38.10). The fight has been going since mid-June and involved more than 60 edits in under a month.

A nice piece of reporting from Recess Monkey, there. And it’s very interesting that both sides seem to consider Wikipedia an important enough site that their representation there matters.