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* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the first thing the main character Taylor does after meeting the Undersiders, a local supervillian team, is to look them up on Parahumans Online (PHO), the ''Worm'' universe's wiki/forum combination for all things superpowered. She quickly discovers that Tattletale's article doesn't even exist, Regent's barely contains anything, and Grue has clearly edited his own article to obscure the details of his power.
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* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the first thing the main character Taylor does after meeting the Undersiders, a local supervillian team, is to look them up on Parahumans Online (PHO), the ''Worm'' universe's wiki/forum combination for all things superpowered. She quickly discovers that Tattletale's article doesn't even exist, Regent's barely contains anything, and Grue has clearly edited his own article to obscure the details of his power.
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** The Wikipedia page for ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' had to be restricted to trusted editors after a wave of netizens started adding in mentions of [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] dying in it, inspired by a joke about Benrey doing exactly that in ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware''.

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** The Wikipedia page for ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' had to be restricted to trusted editors after a wave of netizens started adding in mentions of [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] dying in it, inspired by a joke about Benrey doing exactly that in ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware''.''WebVideo/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware''.

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* In ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'', Benry edits the page for ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' to mention Gordon Freeman's death. This ultimately led to a lot of vandalism on Website/ThatOtherWiki leading the article on ''All Dogs Go To Heaven 2'' needing to be locked.
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* In ''WebVideo/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'', Benry edits the page for ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' to mention Gordon Freeman's death. This ultimately led to a lot of vandalism on Website/ThatOtherWiki leading the article on ''All Dogs Go To Heaven 2'' needing to be locked.
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* The music video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "White and Nerdy", in which he replaces the entire text for Creator/AtlanticRecords' wiki page with huge type reading '''YOU SUCK!!!!!''' This was a personal TakeThat from Al for slights the company had done him in the past. His fans thought it was so funny, they started doing it for real, [[DiscreditedMeme resulting in]] Wiki/ThatOtherWiki [[DiscreditedMeme having to lock the Atlantic Records page]].

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* The music video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "White and Nerdy", in which he replaces the entire text for Creator/AtlanticRecords' wiki page with huge type reading '''YOU SUCK!!!!!''' This was a personal TakeThat from Al for slights the company had done him in the past. His fans thought it was so funny, they started doing it for real, [[DiscreditedMeme resulting in]] Wiki/ThatOtherWiki Website/ThatOtherWiki [[DiscreditedMeme having to lock the Atlantic Records page]].
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* In ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'', Benry edits the page for ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' to mention Gordon Freeman's death. This ultimately led to a lot of vandalism on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki leading the article on ''All Dogs Go To Heaven 2'' needing to be locked.

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* In ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'', Benry edits the page for ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' to mention Gordon Freeman's death. This ultimately led to a lot of vandalism on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki Website/ThatOtherWiki leading the article on ''All Dogs Go To Heaven 2'' needing to be locked.
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* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': Leo Whitefang, the King of Illyria, is apparently allowed to edit the national dictionary at his leisure. He replaces cool-sounding words like "invincible" and "inimitable" with his own name, "defeat" reads "the fate of those who fight Leo Whitefang", [[FragileSpeedster Chipp Zanuff]] is under "irritating" and [[TheGambler Johnny]] is under "fool", and, of course, "hospitality" is not present.
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* The music video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "White and Nerdy", in which he replaces the entire text for Atlantic Records' wiki page with huge type reading '''YOU SUCK!!!!!''' This was a personal TakeThat from Al for slights the company had done him in the past. His fans thought it was so funny, they started doing it for real, [[DiscreditedMeme resulting in]] Wiki/ThatOtherWiki [[DiscreditedMeme having to lock the Atlantic Records page]].

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* The music video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "White and Nerdy", in which he replaces the entire text for Atlantic Records' Creator/AtlanticRecords' wiki page with huge type reading '''YOU SUCK!!!!!''' This was a personal TakeThat from Al for slights the company had done him in the past. His fans thought it was so funny, they started doing it for real, [[DiscreditedMeme resulting in]] Wiki/ThatOtherWiki [[DiscreditedMeme having to lock the Atlantic Records page]].



* [[http://adamcadre.ac/content/brown/ "Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala."]] Changes to Wikipedia - basically vandalism - cause Wikipedia Brown angst, RewritingReality around him.

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* [[http://adamcadre.ac/content/brown/ "Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala."]] Changes to Wikipedia - -- basically vandalism - -- cause Wikipedia Brown angst, RewritingReality around him.



** [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with {{fancruft}} examples of wooden things in media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.

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** [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] This]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with {{fancruft}} examples of wooden things in media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.

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* Replacing everything on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s article on Earth with "Literature/{{Mostly harmless}}." is a bannable offence, as that particular act of vandalism, inspired by a similar act in the book, [[ExecutiveMeddling except it was done by editors]], was done [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore way too many times]].
* Any mention of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in a popular work tends to have this effect. For example, [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with {{fancruft}} examples of wooden things in media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.
* In some of the older LetsPlay/ProtonJon livestreams, a viewer would edit the Wikipedia page for whatever game was currently being played on stream, and then link the article in chat. This happened so often it'll now get you timed out or even banned, depending on how tired the moderator is.

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* Replacing everything on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s article on Earth with "Literature/{{Mostly harmless}}."Mostly harmless." is a bannable offence, as that particular act of vandalism, inspired by a similar act line in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'' where the book, [[ExecutiveMeddling except it was done by editors]], titular guide describes the planet as such, was done [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore way too many times]].
* Any mention of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in a popular work piece of media tends to have this effect. For example, effect:
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[[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with {{fancruft}} examples of wooden things in media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.
* ** In some of the older LetsPlay/ProtonJon livestreams, a viewer would edit the Wikipedia page for whatever game was currently being played on stream, and then link the article in chat. This happened so often it'll now get you timed out or even banned, depending on how tired the moderator is.is.
** Whenever Joel from WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} showcased a Wikipedia page on stream to riff on it, it'd result in a deluge of viewers editing the page to add jokes related to Joel's content, much to his chagrin. This was especially common if he pretended to vandalize it through inspect element[[note]]which doesn't actually change the page on the site's servers, but just temporarily alters how it displays on his end[[/note]].
** The Wikipedia page for ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' had to be restricted to trusted editors after a wave of netizens started adding in mentions of [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] dying in it, inspired by a joke about Benrey doing exactly that in ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware''.
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'''King Kai''': Let me check. Let’s see here. ''[checks Wikipedia entry on Planet Vegeta]'' "Stupid monkeys hit by falling rocks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. P.S. Freeza rules you." That doesn’t seem right...\\
'''Goku:''' Bored now. Let’s get back to training, King Kai!

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'''King Kai''': Let me check. Let’s see here. ''[checks Wikipedia entry on Planet Vegeta]'' "Stupid monkeys hit by falling rocks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. P.S. Freeza rules you." That doesn’t seem right...\\
'''Goku:''' Bored now. Let’s get back to training, King Kai!
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* Any mention of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in a popular work tends to have this effect. For example, [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with {{Fancruft}} examples of wooden things in media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.

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* Any mention of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in a popular work tends to have this effect. For example, [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with {{Fancruft}} {{fancruft}} examples of wooden things in media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.
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* Any mention of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in a popular work tends to have this effect. For example, [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with Fancruft examples of wooden things in media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.

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* Any mention of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in a popular work tends to have this effect. For example, [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with Fancruft {{Fancruft}} examples of wooden things in media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.
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* An [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHihZm5AF2F/ Instagram promotional video]] for ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' had the titular horse edit his Wikipedia page to call himself an "esteemed thespian," remove any reference to his career decline, and claim that "smart people" prefer him to the "hack" Mr. Peanutbutter.
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* The music video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "White and Nerdy", in which he replaces the entire text for Atlantic Records' wiki page with huge type reading '''YOU SUCK!!!!!''' This was a personal TakeThat from Al for slights the company had done him in the past. His fans thought it was so funny, they started doing it for real, resulting in Wiki/ThatOtherWiki having to lock the Atlantic Records page.

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* The music video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "White and Nerdy", in which he replaces the entire text for Atlantic Records' wiki page with huge type reading '''YOU SUCK!!!!!''' This was a personal TakeThat from Al for slights the company had done him in the past. His fans thought it was so funny, they started doing it for real, [[DiscreditedMeme resulting in in]] Wiki/ThatOtherWiki [[DiscreditedMeme having to lock the Atlantic Records page.page]].
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* At one point, Wikipedia had to block edits coming from IP addresses inside the US Capitol Building due to congressional staffers vandalizing the articles of their political opponents.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Higher-ups once tried to expose Rick to a "rare element" known as Sanchezium. It had no effect because it doesn't exist. [[LampshadeHanging Cue lampshade.]]
-->'''Rick:''' I made Sanchezium up, dumbasses! Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia."
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* In Chapter 2 of ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', the heroes find a copy of Cyberpedia in Cyber Field, which Ralsei edits to add in a tutorial about recruiting enemies. Checking the Cyberpedia again after reading the tutorial shows that Susie vandalized it to read "From now on, ralsay drools Susie rules."
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'''King Kai''': Let me check. Let’s see here. [checks Wikipedia entry on Planet Vegeta] "Stupid monkeys hit by falling rocks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. P.S. Freeza rules you." That doesn’t seem right...\\

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'''King Kai''': Let me check. Let’s see here. [checks ''[checks Wikipedia entry on Planet Vegeta] Vegeta]'' "Stupid monkeys hit by falling rocks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. P.S. Freeza rules you." That doesn’t seem right...\\
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* Any mention of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in a popular work tends to have this effect. For example, [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with [[{{Fancruft}} examples of wooden things in media]]. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.

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* Any mention of Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in a popular work tends to have this effect. For example, [[http://xkcd.com/446/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip depicts the Wikipedia article on wood filled with [[{{Fancruft}} Fancruft examples of wooden things in media]].media. Shortly after it was published, the page had to be locked due to repeated additions of similar examples.
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* This was seen at least once in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}''.

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* In Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware, Benry edits the page for WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2 to mention Gordon Freeman's death. This ultimately led to a lot of vandalism on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki leading the article on All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 needing to be locked.

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* In Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware, ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'', Benry edits the page for WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2 ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' to mention Gordon Freeman's death. This ultimately led to a lot of vandalism on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki leading the article on All ''All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 2'' needing to be locked.



** There's also a strip where Skeletor can be seen vandalizing the ''[[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]]'' page on Wikipedia... [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16/ here]]

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** There's also a strip where Skeletor can be seen vandalizing the ''[[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]]'' page on Wikipedia... [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16/ here]]com/comic/2005/12/16 here.]]



* From ''WebSite/CollegeHumor'', [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1723101 Superman edits Clark Kent's Wikipedia]]

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* From ''WebSite/CollegeHumor'', [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1723101 Superman edits Clark Kent's Wikipedia]]Wikipedia.]]



* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The episode "Black Mystery Month" has Steve discover the GovernmentConspiracy behind peanut butter[[note]]It was invented by Mary Todd Lincoln, and President Grover Cleveland discreetly gave it to George Washington Carver in the hopes that a black man inventing such a delicious food would help mend the racial rifts left over after UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar[[/note]], but he ends up losing the evidence. Wanting to expose the truth, he goes to [[TakeThat the one place where people can get away with making outlandish claims without having any real proof to support them]]: he edits the Wikipedia page on peanut butter.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The episode "Black Mystery Month" has Steve discover the GovernmentConspiracy behind peanut butter[[note]]It butter,[[note]]It was invented by Mary Todd Lincoln, and President Grover Cleveland discreetly gave it to George Washington Carver in the hopes that a black man inventing such a delicious food would help mend the racial rifts left over after UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar[[/note]], UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar[[/note]] but he ends up losing the evidence. Wanting to expose the truth, he goes to [[TakeThat the one place where people can get away with making outlandish claims without having any real proof to support them]]: he edits the Wikipedia page on peanut butter.
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* In Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware, Benry edits the page for WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2 to mention Gordon Freeman's death. This ultimately led to a lot of vandalism on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki leading the article on All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 needing to be locked.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': Capitan Rivet checks his Wikipedia page and is annoyed to find it was edited to claim he assassinated President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, even though he wasn't born yet when that happened.
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* ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' features a few subquests where the player haves to fight Digimon that are vandalizing an online encyclopedia called Digipedia. In the first one a Tentomon is rewriting all the pages about Kansai and its traditions in the local dialect, while in a later one a [=MetalEtemon=] rewrites many pages about Japanese mythology and culture to make them about Digimon.
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** the page is now edit locked, though that may or may not be due to fans vandalizing it’s.

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'''King Kai''': Let me check. Let’s see here. [checks Wikipedia entry] "Stupid monkeys hit by falling rocks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. P.S. Freeza rules you." That doesn’t seem right...\\

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'''King Kai''': Let me check. Let’s see here. [checks Wikipedia entry] entry on Planet Vegeta] "Stupid monkeys hit by falling rocks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. P.S. Freeza rules you." That doesn’t seem right...\\



-->--''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

A character edits a wiki - be it Wikipedia or any other free info source - and adds information which is gibberish or they know to be false, to make a practical joke, to mislead someone who's been using this source without testing it, or just for the sake of it. HilarityEnsues... but only for the person in question.

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-->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

A character edits a wiki - be it Wikipedia Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} or any other free info source - and adds information which is gibberish or they know to be false, to make a practical joke, to mislead someone who's been using this source without testing it, or just for the sake of it. HilarityEnsues... but only for the person in question.



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