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Bruce Springsteen's Wiki page defaced

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| Posted: Feb 4, 2009 2:05 pm

This story goes in the "sad, but still sort of funny" category. It seems that Bruce Springsteen might not have as many fans as he would like to think.

 

On Sunday during the Superbowl halftime show Bruce Sang and jumped around while people were busy defacing his Wikipedia page. The clever editors changed the details of Bruce's page to things such as "Bruce Springsteen. This guy kinda sucks." And "Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed 'The Boss' is a FAG!".

 

Wikipedia is looking into changing the editing process to prevent situations like this from happening in the future.

 

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