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Wikipedia was in the forefront of the battle over the Smith birth certificate

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I was over at Birther Report last night to see if anyone had picked up on my April Fool’s Takedown, and I came across a comment by RS1 under an article about the new Lucas Smith Oppenheim birth certificate:

Roadburner101 – please note also the british DD/MM/YYYY date format used this time as opposed to the american MM/DD/YYYY date format he used last time – this also means one or the other is fake, so which is it lucas?

Wrong dingbat, OBot Road Rash. We were onto your change “the Kenyan date format” operations way back when. A Dr. CONspiracy BS Ops.

I, and a few others caught OBots in the BS act back in the day. Post from FR. Like this one:
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” “That document is a fraud. The dates on it are American style month/day/year, most other countries including the UK format dates day/month/year.” [

[The truth -->] “Without commenting on authenticity of the CPGH BC, I personally researched the Wiki date format by country page in Sept of 2009 and found that Kenya was one of only three countries, IIRC, employing both the European and US style date formats. When I put this information up on the web, the Wiki page was immediately hacked by an Obot named Mystylplx who flagrantly tried to expunge Kenya as showing dual use. A war ensued for months with folks trying to restore the original data and Obots hacking it to cover for Barry without regard to the truth of the original page.

I just checked the page and the dual date format for Kenya has been restored for the moment. Obots never succeeded in removing the color on the global map showing Kenya as a dual format country, which it still show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_count…
93 posted on Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:37:04 PM by Seizethecarp”

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This CON-job - “Mystylpxl” – - remember this poster OBot bonehead? You DUmbass OBots trying to pull a lying fast one on everyone again.

And then RS1 cites:

“To: Churchillspirit

See my two previous posts:

Wiki has a color-coded global map of countries using different date formats and Kenya jumps out all by itself (in purple) as using two formats, one of which matched the Lucas Smith video. It would be possible for Wiki to have been hacked and those with “way-back” investigative skills might want to see how long ago Kenya was shown as using two date formats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format#Date_for…

List of the world locations by date format in use:

Kenya (d/m/yyyy and m/d/yyyy)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322189/…

An Obot named “Mystylplx” was forced to admit that after this information was posted on Lucas Smith’s Youtube site, she(?) hacked the Wiki date format page and removed the dual date format listing for Kenya, although the color-coded map still shows Kenya in purple as a dual date format country. This would seem to show some hypersensitivity on this point, which shouldn’t worry “them” if it weren’t true.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322189/…

28 posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 1:10:52 PM by Seizethecarp ”

The essential claim in all of that is that anti-birthers altered the Wikipedia to hide the fact that Kenya uses both the US and British date formatting systems. Did they?

It turns out that in January of 2011 the Date Formats by Country article was split off from the main Date Formats article. And indeed, of one looks at the Wikipedia history for that main article, as it appeared on February 15, 2009, one finds:

The reference link (74) goes to http://www.communication.go.ke/, a link no longer valid, but that may be familiar to long-time readers here, since that web site is one promoted by Lucas Smith himself as an example of official use of the US date format in Kenya. You can see what it once looked like in my 2011 article, “Date formats in Kenya.” That reference is not a source by Wikipedia standards, since it doesn’t actually say what Kenyan date formats are, only uses them (and apparently in a broken manner). To say that that Kenya officially uses US date formatting from this source would be a conclusion of “original research” not allowed on the Wikipedia. I say all of that to conclude that the US date format item in the Wikipedia article was faulty in February of 2009, being unsourced, and as such any Wikipedia editor could have legitimately removed it.

That said, can we blame the Wikipedia US format entry for Kenya on Smith or one of his supporters? No.

Here’s the Wikipedia page from October 28, 2008, where the US date format entry originated. The entry is sourced from a Microsoft page that has been moved, and is not in the Wayback Machine; however, I found the current version, and the relevant information. Indeed, it does what appears to be m/d/yyyy formatting for “Kiswahili (Kenya).”

It is important to understand that this entry is not for Kenya, but for the national language Kiswahili. There is no English entry for Kenya and to my way of thinking, the closest entry would be for UK English:

So in conclusion, this controversy appears to be just a mistake, exacerbated by web reference pages whose links went bad.

I’ve fixed the Wikipedia.

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