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Wikipedia once banned US politicians for 10 days

Fact - Wikipedia once banned US politicians for 10 days to curb edits to biographical information made by the staff.
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For 10 days, Wikipedia banned IP addresses belonging to offices within the U.S. House of Representatives. This was done primarily to curb the edits being made to biographical information of various politicians by their own staff.

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