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Some edits to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia by staff of the United States Congress have created controversy, notably in early to mid-2006. Several such instances, such as those involving Marty Meehan, Norm Coleman, Conrad Burns,〔 〕 and Joe Biden, received significant media attention.〔 The activities documented included: : * rewriting Norm Coleman's article to make more favorable, claimed to be "correcting errors" : * removing from Conrad Burns' article quoted pejorative statements he had made, and replacing them with "glowing tributes" such as "the voice of the farmer" : * removal of unfavorable information from Joe Biden's article 〕 Others, such as those involving Gil Gutknecht, were reported but received less widespread coverage. Biographical information on various politicians was edited by their own staff to remove undesirable information (including pejorative statements quoted, or broken campaign promises), add favorable information or "glowing" tributes, add negative information to opponents' biographies, or replace the article in part or whole by staff-authored biographies.〔 ==Background== On January 27, 2006, ''The Sun'' of Lowell, Massachusetts, published an article entitled ''"Rewriting history under the dome"'', which revealed the editing by Congressional staff members of Congressman Marty Meehan's Wikipedia entry.〔 Further investigation by Wikipedia editors discovered well over a thousand edits by IP addresses allocated to the US House of Representatives and Senate. Most of the edits were considered to show good faith by Wikipedia editors. A minority of edits were considered improper. At least one of the addresses involved was blocked from further editing.〔Wikipedia editors made a fairly extensive survey of edits from Congressional IP ranges: (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Wikipedia:Congressional Staffer Edits )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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