(Wisconsin) Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has been quietly editing her own Wikipedia page

3 years ago by MicroWave to c/news

Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley was scolded by a Wikipedia editor this month for her heavy editing of her own biography on the online encyclopedia.

Last week, a person with the Twitter handle @arizonasunblock from Tampa, Florida, noticed that Bradley, who has been on the high court since 2015, appeared to make major changes to her Wikipedia biography earlier this year.

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MicroWave 170 points 3 years ago
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Nougat 125 points 3 years ago

"It's so unfair that my own words can be written down for posterity!"

Tell me she doesn't know that just because you've edited a Wikipedia page, that the previous version still exists, and is likely to draw attention and discussion because of your edits.

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Silverseren 48 points 3 years ago

And is super easy to revert to the prior version too. It's basically two clicks to make it happen. And then have an admin protect the page to only allow established editors so randos can't do this with just an IP address again.

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JDubbleu 25 points 3 years ago

I love too that she mentioned, "REAL OPINIONS" as if those are more valid than the exact words she said.

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BettyWhiteInHD 60 points 3 years ago
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Maajmaaj 34 points 3 years ago
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JustZ 2 points 3 years ago

It's an inaccurate epithet anyhow. Uncle Tom was overly nice to whites so as not to draw their wrath.

In the end, the whites beat Uncle Tom to death when he refused to give the whereabouts of two runaway slaves.

I don't know what epithet you'd call someone who turned in the two slaves and lived to work the big house another day, but that's what you should call Clarence.

I used to call Clarence an Uncle Tom, but then I read the book.

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spacedance -13 points 3 years ago

We're just using racial slurs now? Come on, that's over the line.

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GreenMario 6 points 3 years ago

Gosh dang LiBrUlS at it again!

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TruTollTroll 1 point 3 years ago

Right!! They never got no treddfiddy neither for us!! Lol

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