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Yesterday's call to seek out Wikipedia-editing employees at major labels using the IP scanner Wikipedia Scanner inspired one intrepid reader to find the following Master P-related edit: "In an entry about the song "Sexual Healing," someone from Sony BMG changed the description of Master P's 'Ghetto D' from 'epic album' to 'magnum opus.' They also added the following description: [Master P]]'s 1997 [[magnum opus]] '[[Ghetto D]]' included a song called 'Bourbons and Lacs' that used the music and the melody to create a wonderfully soulful celebration of the lives of playas in the Big Easy. 'Bourbons and Lacs' caps off the album perfectly, leaving the listener with a sense of comfort after a thrilling ride through the steets of the Dirty South with the Colonel himself."



Ah, PR departments. You can smell their misuse of adjectives a mile away! But wait—he found more, including Muzak playlist highlights and the rejection of "teh suck" as a viable musical genre: More »

A grad student at CalTech has developed Wikipedia Scanner, a search tool for Wikipedia that allows people to search edits by IP address and see if there are people out there who are trying to spin entries on the site in their (or, rather, their employers') favor. Wired's Threat Level blog is keeping a running diary of egregious self-edits; so far, they've only found one music-related one—the above edit by the country singer Roger Hallmark, who at least is up-front about his shilling.^* More »