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Article: West Yorkshire Police chief victim of Wikipedia pranks.

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March 4, 2008
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West Yorkshire Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison has instructed staff to check online encyclopaedia Wikipedia to stop its users posting rude comments about him.

A website carrying details about the Chief Constable has reportedly been altered more than 100 times in the last few months.

One deleted edit labelled him a "greedy, vain moron", according to industry magazine Police Review.

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