Thanks to the childish attitude of many “fanboys” (and girls), Wikimedia was forced to temporarily closed the said entries in an attempt to make the vandals lose interest.

Last week the complete Nintendo company page was replaced with the phrase “Nintendo Sucks!!!!!!!!!” briefly before the Web site reloaded the original entry. Previous vandalism efforts include someone doodling on a Hitler moustache and horns on the photograph for the entry for Bill Gates, and the sentence “Microsoft is Zomg T3h Suck0r!!!!!!” briefly replacing the computer software company’s page.

I sincerely hope that this does not become a trend. I don’t mind seeing a bunch of fanboys doing their own “X sucks, Y is t3h win” thing in a private forum, but taking things “globally”, through Wikipedia, is just wrong.

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