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# Wikipedia users name celebrities with gagging orders
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## The identities of four celebrities who obtained draconian injunctions to
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hide details of their extra-marital affairs have been disclosed on Wikipedia,
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the online encyclopedia.
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![Wikipedia users name celebrities with gagging orders][1]
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Imogen Thomas appeared on ITVs 'This Morning' Photo: REX
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By [Steven Swinford][2] 6:27AM BST 28 Apr 2011
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Their profiles on the website, which is read by more than 400million people a
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month and allows anyone to edit it, have been altered by users intent on
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naming them.
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While Wikipedia's administrators have removed the references from the
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celebrities' pages they remain accessible in a historic log.
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One of the most heavily affected Wikipedia pages belonged to a Premier League
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footballer who allegedly had an affair with Imogen Thomas, the former
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contestant on Big Brother.
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The allegations were introduced more than 10 times on his Wikipedia page,
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despite the best efforts of moderators.
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One user wrote: "[He has] lost his discipline and had [sic] been playing away
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from home with non [sic] other than Imogen Thomas from Big Brother."
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## Related Articles
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* [Imogen Thomas: 'I've been thrown to the lions'][3]
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27 Apr 2011
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* [Sir Fred Goodwin's super-injunction handed to MPs][4]
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27 Apr 2011
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* [Lawyer blames women for injunctions][5]
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26 Apr 2011
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* [Bill of Rights could prevent super-injunctions][6]
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26 Apr 2011
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An actor who obtained a privacy injunction after cheating on his wife with a
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prostitute was also identified on Wikipedia. He had found it increasingly
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difficult to keep his name a secret after Helen Wood, of Manchester, told a
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newspaper that he had paid her £195 for sex. Wayne Rooney, the England
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footballer, previously paid Miss Wood £1,000 for an encounter.
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One user wrote under the charity section of the actor's Wikipedia profile page
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that he was a "patron [of a] prostitute in the Manchester area". Another
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changed his middle name to "super-injunction".
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A star whose celebrity mistress was sacked after his wife discovered their
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affair was also exposed. One entry stated: "In April 2011 it was revealed that
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[the man] was the subject of an injunction banning newspapers from naming him
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as ETK, the entertainer having an affair."
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The fourth celebrity targeted on Wikipedia was a television presenter who took
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out a super-injunction to stop his ex-wife from alleging that they had an
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affair after he remarried. Comments on his profile hinting that he had
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obtained an injunction were taken down.
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Media lawyers said the disclosure of the men's identities on the internet
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sounded the "death knell" for privacy injunctions. "These orders are
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increasingly redundant because their names are all over Wikipedia and social
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networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook," said Niri Shan, head of media
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law at the legal firm Taylor Wessing. "Because many of these websites are
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abroad the injunctions are unenforceable."
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A spokesman for Wikipedia said that if the allegations were posted repeatedly
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the pages could be "locked" to limit those who could edit them. He added,
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that, because Wikipedia was based in the United States, it was not bound by
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the injunctions.
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"The servers are based in the US so Wikipedia is not liable," he said. "People
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have tried to sue the foundation for libellous content but it's been thrown
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out. Our material has to be really well referenced or it is chucked out
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immediately."
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## [Wikipedia][12]
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* ### [News »][13]
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* ### [UK News »][14]
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* ### [Technology »][15]
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* ### [Steven Swinford »][16]
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In technology
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[![Leading French author Houellebecq accused of Wikipedia cut and paste ][17]
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### [Leading French author Houellebecq accused of Wikipedia cut and
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paste][18]
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[![][19] ][20]
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### [Wikipedia denies losing editors][20]
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[![Caroline Flint, Labour MP and former Health Minister ][21] ][22]
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### [MPs' scandals covered up on Wikipedia][22]
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[![Wikipedia][23] ][24]
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