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The St. Louis Cardinals are a proud franchise, and for good reason. According to Wikipedia, the Cardinals are [o]ne of the most successful franchises in baseball history, the Cardinals have won 11 World Series championships, the second-most in Major League Baseball and most in the National League. This is accurate. The Cardinals won championships in 1926, 1931, 1934, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1964, 1967, 1982, 2006, and 2011. Yes, most of their championships were when there were just 16 teams in baseball and no playoffs, but that is still an impressive accomplishment.

But there is one championship that still haunts Cardinals fans, the one that escaped them in 1985. They held a 3-1 series lead on the cross-state rival Royals, only to drop Game 5. They appeared to have Game 6 in the bag, but allowed a controversial safe call by umpire Don Denkinger rattle them, as Jack Clark dropped an easy foul pop up, Darrell Porter allowed a passed ball, and Todd Worrell allowed a single to light-hitting Dane Iorg to win the game. The Cardinals were still fuming in Game 7, losing their focus in an 11-0 blowout to give Kansas City its first championship.

The 1985 championship trophy sits in the Royals Hall of Fame at Kauffman Stadium. But one Cardinals fan wanted to imagine that his team won it that year. Royals fan Michael Smith noticed this on Cardinals Wikipedia page a few weeks ago, which I have screenshotted for posterity.

Okay.

Haha, no.

It looks like the Wikipedia page has already been edited to erase the fictitious St. Louis championship, but give the fan an A for bitterness.

Was it an honest mistake? Perhaps. Although if you look at the Internet Archive, earlier in July, the championships were reflected correctly. So someone proactively edited the page to add the 1985 championship since then, and it looks like it was this edit on July 21, from an IP address in East Alton, Illinois, just outside of St. Louis. Nice try, but Jorge Orta was safe.

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A ban on the open-source online encyclopedia website, Wikipedia, may be lifted if the site complies with Turkey's demands, a Turkish minister said yesterday. Speaking in a televised interview, Ahmet Arslan, minister of Telecommunications, said they would to reopen the website if conditions are met.

Access to the website was blocked in Turkey in April after Wikipedia refused to cooperate with Ankara in the removal of fabricated content falsely associating the country with terror groups. Arslan's ministry said after the ban that Wikipedia was "becoming an information source acting with groups conducting a smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena."

In yesterday's interview, Arslan said the website did not "correct its mistakes" and prevented Turkish editors from inserting corrections. "We asked them to remove the content misrepresenting Turkey. We have warned them many times before. Turkey wants Wikipedia to be reopened, but they can only be given a green light if they correct their mistake," Arslan said.

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It might be a trap. But, it appears as though someone in the U.S. House of Representatives has anonymously edited the Wikipedia page about the Star Wars character Admiral Ackbar. And the strangest thing is, it looks like this person added material about the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis into the backstory of Ackbar. Okay, this is definitely a trap!

On Wednesday, the Twitter account Congress Edits noticed that someone in the U.S. House of Representatives made an edit to the Ackbar Wikipedia entry. Congress Edits determines the location of an edit made to Wikipedia based on the IP address of the user and the users account history.

Whats odd about this, is that the suggested change to Ackbars backstory would now include the story Palpatine told Anakin about Darth Plagueis in Revenge of the Sith. Obviously, Darth Plagueis has nothing to do with Admiral Ackbar, making the suggested edit weird to say the least. The edit is pretty much a cut-and-paste of Palpatines speech to Anakin all about how Darth Plauegeis was killed by his apprentice in his sleep.

As an open-source reference guide, Wikipedia allows anyone to edit articles, though a small group of editors keeps an eye on those edits. They then decide whether or not to let a revision stand, or to reverse it back.

As of Thursday, the Wikipedia entry for Admiral Ackbar does not include the Palaptaine speech to Anakin. Which should make Ackbar fans happy and has probably thwarted some insidious plot from a Sith Lord working inside of the House of Representatives.

In the Star Wars prequels, Palpatine was Senator in the Galactic Republic. His counterpart in our world, who is scurrilously spreading misinformation about everyones favorite fish-alien, remains, like the Dark Lord himself, hidden.

Admiral Ackbar is set to appear in The Last Jedi which hits theaters on December 15, 2017.

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Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction? is back with a new season of episodes! Every Wednesday, well have a new Wiki segment for you, starting today (Aug. 2) with Metallica legend Jason Newsted!

At Newsteds RAWK art exhibition in New York City, we sat down with the iconic bassist to prove and disprove whats written about him on Wikipedia. Newsted actually started playing guitar instead of bass, writing religious songs on an acoustic axe before even knowing how to tune the thing. Newsted. shares how his first bass was actually a six-string with two tuning knobs snapped off and how his father still keeps the instrument in Jasons childhood room.

Turns out there is some truth to Metallicas famous wasabi initiation story. Just 11 days into his role as Metallicas bassist, Newsted was tricked byKirk Hammettinto eating mint ice cream while eating dinner in Japan. Already wasted, Jason ate a massive glob of wasabi, burning his mouth to hell. As Newsted describes, Metallica then abandoned the bassist, making Jason think he was stuck paying the massive bill.

Newsted corrected some fiction when we brought up a Wikipedia entry about Black Album producer Bob Rock. Wikipedia states Rock altered Metallicas working schedule and routine so much that the band swore never to record with him again, but Newsted emphatically rejected the report. I remember being so happy about the result that we wouldnt work with anybody else except for him, Newsted says. We were very proud of finally getting him into our camp [The Black Album] sells four thousand, five thousand copies a week still, guys!

Watch the Jason Newsted episode of Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction? above and check out more Wiki segments below!

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