Wikipedia and my college

Part of my Wikipedia explorations is the investigation of how Crown College, the institution which I attend, is represented it on this free, online encyclopedia. There are currently two different articles pertaining to my school: "Crown College (Minnesota)" & "L Arnold Hustad ."

There are currently no pictures on uploaded to the Crown College Wikipedia sight, which I find very sad, considering other colleges have illustrations with their articles. I would like to take the project of expanding and editing this page on; however, just trying to upload a picture was a process with which I quickly became overwhelmed.

I mentioned in earlier blog that Wikipedia is virtually impossible to vandalize. Here's why (I know this from experience and it was only confirmed by that article I've been reading).

One of the professors at my college was "running for president." There were a number of students that were "campaigning for him." It was a fun little rouse (Is that even the right word?). The idea came into my head that I should put this professor and his "presidential campaign on Wikipedia. At the time, I wasn't aware of everything I'm aware of now. I go to http://www.wikipedia.org/, get a user name and password to become an editor (which isn't necessary, by the way), and type up this super brief and spoof article. It was instantly deleted. It was literally a matter of seconds. I think there was a five-second interval when Wikipedia would "go" to article. Then it was gone, and I was told something to the extent of "The administrator did not find demontrated historical significance with the material.

For the purpose of further research, I tried to re-create this experience and attain the exact quote from the adminstrator; so I created another spoof article. (It may or not be there by the time you click this link.)

It's still there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_wheaton. The article is simply this sentence copied and pasted multiple times: "This article is an intentional spoof article for the purpose of research." The article is titled "Spoof."

What does this have to do with uploading pictures? Wikipedia is pretty picky about the copyright of the images that are uploaded to its site. They explain everything in extensive articles.

My last spoof article was deleted instantly.

My spoof article is still there. Maybe I'll UNspoof this article for the purpose of more research...