Notable Acts of Vandalism
- In 2006, Rolling Stone printed a story about Halle Berry based on false information from an act of Wikipedia vandalism.
- A person from Łódź was attacking Polish Wikipedia throughout 2006 and early 2007, inserting obscene pictures and profanity into random pages, without any reaction from his internet provider, Neostrada. The vandal's activity finished when he was deprived of his internet connection, but not before the entire city of Łódź had to be banned from editing Wikipedia for three days.
- Professional golfer Fuzzy Zoeller sued a Miami company whose IP-based edits to the Wikipedia site included negative information about him.
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