Wikipedia succumbs to UTAS image spinners.
We at the UTAS Blog do our research.
And it seems that UTAS hierarchy really have been a pack of Wiki-Watchers for quite some time.
This is what we found when investigating the Wikipedia article on the University of Tasmania.
"Excuse me, what makes you think you can delete whole paragraphs of my hard work and change the entire feel of this article without even consulting anyone? The stuff you got rid of was all true and verifiable on the UTAS website, and what's more it gave a lot of information about specific research. Your stuff states the obvious that is true of any university, and moreover, it seems to be all very biased towards talking up and bragging about how beautiful it is to live and study in Hobart. Are you from admin, methinks? Since you spent two days on it I'll leave it but please comment before we may change it back. -tilgrieog January 2, 2006.
Oh screw this he won't stop changing it and the article has been taken over by people who don't have very good taste. Well it's all yours, I'm abandoning it now. Tilgrieog 13:57, 22 January 2006 (UTC)"
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:University_of_Tasmania)
While we're not exactly shocked by this, we are saddened...
And if anyone wants to wager a (nominal) sum to be donated to the winners charity of choice, we'll bet UTAS pay someone to watch Wikipedia and change it all back to the sterile bland tat that it is now.
We added the last line in this paragraph in the Wikipedia University of Tasmania page.
"The President of the TUU is responsible for the Hobart and Launceston campuses, yet both Hobart and Launceston have their own Vice-President. and the President of the SA both sit on the University Council, which is the governing body of the University of Tasmania. In 2008, a Students Complaints website (www.utas.ws) was created and received support from the TUU."
This edit done at at 3.10pm 15th Sept 08.
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I cleaned it up a bit, hope you don't mind, it read pretty poorly before.
I left the bit about the TUU supporting www.utas.ws in, because I think it's a great idea, so long as you genuinely raise issues that matter to you, rather than talking about ghosts and UFO's.
Rob Meredith
TUU State President
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UTAS Blog staff only added this line to the Wikipedia page
"In 2008, a Students Complaints website (www.utas.ws) was created and received support from the TUU."
So we're not taking responsibility for anything else.
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