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Allegations of e-Chicanery at Abbott Laboratories
Staff Reporters
According to Walter Armstrong, of Pharmaceutical Executive on October 1, 2008, Abbott Laboratories recently edited its Wikipedia entry in an attempt to bolster its e-image.
Seeking Image Redeux
A fellow named Jeffrey Light, the young founder and head of tiny DC-based nonprofit Patients not Patents hit the wires recently, charged that Abbott Laboratories edited its entry in Wikipedia, the online everybody-can-play encyclopedia, trying to make itself look better.
Track-Backs
Using a brand-new online tool called the Wiki Scanner, which allows anyone to track-back the source of any change entered into any of Wikipedia’s 2 million articles, Light discovered that at 4:38 P.M. on July 2, 2007, several edits to the article on Abbott were made from a computer at Abbott’s Chicago office.
Assessment
We surmise the aging folks at Abbott are unfamiliar with the blogging concept of track-backs and pings; etc.
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Conclusion
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