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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

    Game » consists of 22 releases. Released Nov 10, 2009

    The sequel to 2007’s wildly successful first-person-shooter Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues the story of American and British soldiers fighting Russian ultra-nationalist forces.

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    #1  Edited By citizenkane

    We know that the main article for Modern Warfare 2 has been tampered with and are currently investigating the situation.  If you see any others like this, please contact us.
     
    Thank you.

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    #2  Edited By AlwaysAngry

    What do you mean by "tampered" with? 
     
     
    EDIT: Oh...I see.

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    #3  Edited By citizenkane
    @AlwaysAngry said:
    " What do you mean by "tampered" with?   EDIT: Oh...I see. "
    The entire wiki article was deleted and replaced with a porn link.
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    #4  Edited By VIGGO123

    Isn't this like the second or third article today? Man, what a d-bag...

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    #5  Edited By Red12b
    @CitizenKane:  
    Who the fuck is doing this, isn't this three now? 
    Is there a way to trace this absolute wanker? 
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    #6  Edited By AlwaysAngry
    @CitizenKane said:

    " @AlwaysAngry said:

    " What do you mean by "tampered" with?   EDIT: Oh...I see. "
    The entire wiki article was deleted and replaced with a porn link. "
    For real!? DAMNIT! I DIDN'T SEE A LINK TO CL- 
     
    But seriously, why a porn link? The SFIV article has a picture that says "Who the fuck cares?"  Also, when I checked, the Persona 4 page still looks normal.
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    #7  Edited By citizenkane
    @Red12b said:
    " @CitizenKane:  Who the fuck is doing this, isn't this three now? Is there a way to trace this absolute wanker?  "
    Right now it stands as 3: Persona 4, Modern Warfare 2 and Street Fighter IV.  We do not have any suspects at this time.
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    #8  Edited By AlwaysAngry
    @Red12b said:

    " @CitizenKane:  Who the fuck is doing this, isn't this three now? Is there a way to trace this absolute wanker?  "

    If he is just doing it, he must have over 1,000 points, or-else the MOD's would see...right?
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    #9  Edited By Red12b
    @AlwaysAngry:  
    Yep, 
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    #10  Edited By AlwaysAngry
    @Red12b: Ah, I see I have narrowed down the suspects. I'm like a detective...*turns on spy music.*
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    #11  Edited By ThePencil

    Investigation Team go!

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    #12  Edited By AlwaysAngry

    I think it was CitizenKane and now he's trying to frame another user. 
     
    Do you have an ala by? Did I even spell that right?

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    #13  Edited By Red12b
    @AlwaysAngry:  
    Dude this is kinda serious, stop messing around.  
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    #14  Edited By tmthomsen
    @AlwaysAngry: Alibi.
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    #15  Edited By Elazul

    Wait a minute, I thought it took two moderators to delete a page, not just some guy with 1000 points. Also, how did Dave not build in a way to track edits and deletions? That's the first thing I'd do if I was gonna give the filthy public live edit access to a database.

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    #16  Edited By citizenkane

    Looks like they're on to me, Zach.  I better have a good cover.

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    I am not surprised. There is vandalism on every wiki out there, why should giantbomb be the sole expection? Yes, it's sad, but that's just gonna happen. Not much anyone can do about it. 
     
    Popularity leads to intimacy, but also to vandalismcy.

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    #18  Edited By cynicalmonkey

    @Red12b:
    it is kind of serious but unless you expect the person guilty to just come into the forum and say 'i did it' i'm not sure why always angry can't make a few jokes

     

    besides doesn't the page keep a record of who edits it?

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    #19  Edited By Red12b
    @the jerkoff deleting Wiki pages, Fucking class man, real fucking class, What right do you have trashing other people's work, I hope you live a long and miserable old life alone you prick.    
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    #20  Edited By Jadeskye
    @CitizenKane: Did your coffee tell you to do it? it's okay if thats the case :p
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    #21  Edited By Red12b
    @Elazul said:
    " Wait a minute, I thought it took two moderators to delete a page, not just some guy with 1000 points. Also, how did Dave not build in a way to track edits and deletions? That's the first thing I'd do if I was gonna give the filthy public live edit access to a database. "
    A user with over 1'000 points can effectively wipe the text off of the page, same thing really isn't it. 
    Yeah I should think there would be, but that would be under the Engineers of the sites jurisdiction, Mods would not have that power,  
    I bet there are caches that the engineers can reboot, or something. 
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    @cynicalmonkey said:

    "besides doesn't the page keep a record of who edits it?"

    I don't think so. This is why they implemented the moderation of submissions. In turn, that means our unsub should have more than 1000 points.
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    #23  Edited By Pessh

    Is there no way to track this kind of thing? thought there'd be a log of all the edits made to a page

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    #24  Edited By ErgoProxy77

    Man, I hope it can be recovered.  It was pretty dense.

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    #25  Edited By Geno

    Can you search when these edits happened, and which users accumulated points at that time? 

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    #26  Edited By citizenkane
    @Geno said:
    " Can you search when these edits happened, and which users accumulated points at that time?  "
    The staff has this ability, yes.
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    #27  Edited By Red12b
    @cynicalmonkey said:
    "

    @Red12b:
    it is kind of serious but unless you expect the person guilty to just come into the forum and say 'i did it' i'm not sure why always angry can't make a few jokes

     

    besides doesn't the page keep a record of who edits it?

    "
    Yeah, but still. 
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    #28  Edited By cynicalmonkey

    wait i see a pattern 
     
    persona 4 
    street fighter 4 
    call of duty 4,2 
     
    i'm onto you tampererererer, quick everyone to the super mario 4 page for a stakeout
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    #29  Edited By Red12b
    @CitizenKane:  
    Shouldn't it show up in the activity feed as well?
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    #30  Edited By FireBurger

    Is there some sort of roll-back system implemented, yet to recover the lost wiki?
     
    Also, how is there no way to track the most recent edits and what they've done?

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    #31  Edited By ryanwho

    If you write a substantial wiki on a site where anyone can edit it I should hope you have the common sense to save a copy on your computer. This is only a big deal if the people writing major wikis don't back their work up, which would be just silly.

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    #32  Edited By Elazul
    @Red12b said:
    " @Elazul said:
    " Wait a minute, I thought it took two moderators to delete a page, not just some guy with 1000 points. Also, how did Dave not build in a way to track edits and deletions? That's the first thing I'd do if I was gonna give the filthy public live edit access to a database. "
    A user with over 1'000 points can effectively wipe the text off of the page, same thing really isn't it. Yeah I should think there would be, but that would be under the Engineers of the sites jurisdiction, Mods would not have that power,  I bet there are caches that the engineers can reboot, or something.  "
    Great. I don't know what's worse, the fact that anyone with over 1000 points can effectively wreck this site if they feel like it, or that we are currently broadcasting this information to the entire site...
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    #33  Edited By Red12b
    @Elazul:  
    I think it's just common knowledge, That is why there are modded submissions, so that a user might be put off putting in the effort to try and fuck things up, GB has a few persistent trolls, I would bet on it that it is one of them, or maybe it';s just the one dude with different aliases,  
     
    Show's how little their time matters to them, How sad an individual must you be to do this I don't know. 
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    #34  Edited By Slippery

    Dick move.

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    #35  Edited By Drebin_893

    It definitely isn't me....... Yup.

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    #36  Edited By eroticfishcake

    I've saved a copy of the Persona 4 page onto my PC. Nerdy? Yes? Important? Abso-fucking-lutely. 
     
    Anyway that's pretty horrible to hear. Hope it gets sorted out soon.

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    #37  Edited By FireBurger
    @eroticfishcake: Haha, I saved Red Dead Redemption, Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2, Halo 3, Dragon Age: Origins, BFBC, and BFBC2 earlier. Whoever it is seems to be going after big games / games with the most popular forums. Not sure if the site has a rollback feature, so I figured grabbing a few of the big ones couldn't hurt.
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    #38  Edited By eroticfishcake
    @FireBurger said:
    " @eroticfishcake: Haha, I saved Red Dead Redemption, Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2, Halo 3, Dragon Age: Origins, BFBC, and BFBC2 earlier. Whoever it is seems to be going after big games / games with the most popular forums. Not sure if the site has a rollback feature, so I figured grabbing a few of the big ones couldn't hurt. "
    Heh. Good to know I'm not alone in these nerdy actions. Kudos to you mate. I would save a copy of other games but considering the relationship that Persona4 has with GiantBomb I've decided to save a copy of everything Persona 4 related (the crucial bits anyway). 
     
    Anyway, it's interesting to note the pages that have been tampered with. Sure, the games are currently pretty popular everywhere else but they feel a little too specific.
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    #39  Edited By Drebin_893

    Well this gentlemen certainly isn't the most pathetic person wasting my oxygen right now. Maybe it's Endogene. His name was, apparently, Endogene.

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    #40  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

    We've managed to restore all the pages (that we know of) that had their content removed. We still don't know who did it though. The staff should be able to help us with that when they come online. 
     
    Either way, if you come across any more pages that have had their content removed like this - please contact us immediately. 

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    #41  Edited By citizenkane

    Update: We have found the person responsible for this mess.  Order has been restored.

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    #42  Edited By xMP44x

    Excuse me. I have edited my post after reading this. Congratulations on finding the culprit guys! Maybe a name 'n shame would be useful? :3 
    Just kidding. But congratulations on finding him. 

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    #43  Edited By Jeffsekai
    @CitizenKane said:
    " Update: We have found the person responsible for this mess.  Order has been restored. "
    Hurray. Did he get a stern talking too?
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    #44  Edited By Lowbrow

    Victory!

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    #45  Edited By FrankCanada97

    By the way, didn't the wiki used to have an edit history page? Oh, and Kudos for detecting the culprit.

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    #46  Edited By Hamz
    @Jeffsekai: We released the Kraken if you get what I mean! 
     
    @FrankCanada97: There was briefly a wiki history tool on the site, it was removed due to complications and errors and for now is not expected to return anytime soon. So good old fashioned detective work is needed!
     
    Since this is now resolved I'll lock this down. We're sorry if you were the top editor on a page and have been knocked off by a mod, but we had to restore missing content on the pages after vandalism ruined them, so apologies for that.

    This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:

    Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live.

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