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Sen. Tim Scotts Wikipedia page was defaced Tuesday in another racial attack that has become all too common for the black Republican.

Hitting me where it hurtsmy wikipedia page, Mr. Scott tweeted, including a link to the changed entry that described the South Carolina senator as an uncle tom [[house negro]] coon.

According to The Post and Courier, the person who made the racist edit has since been blocked indefinitely by Wikipedia.

The user, ScottBanks, had a history making edits to the Wikipedia pages of two other black Republicans, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, The Post and Courier reported.

Mr. Scott, South Carolinas first black senator, has reportedly been the target of racial hatred since his election. In February, he read racist tweets directed at him on the floor of the U.S. Senate over his support for Jeff Sessions.

Some of the tweets read,You are a disgrace to your race andHow does a black man turn on his own?

I left out all the ones that used the N-word, Mr. Scott told his colleagues at the time. Just felt like that would not be appropriate.

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Prankers have targeted Love Island's newest boy

LOVE Island star Mike Muggy Thalassitis has fallen foul of hackers who have changed his footballing biography on Wikipedia.

Mike, 24,plays semi-professional soccer for Margate FC, but the name of his club was changed to S**gging On Love Island FC on his online profile.

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And if that wasnt bad enough, his own full name was also switched to Michael tap s**gger Thalassitis by the prankster.

The strikers Wikipedia has since been corrected.

Mike is the newest contestant to enter this years series of Love Island, having arrived in the villa a week ago.

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His first encounter was a private date with Tyne-Lexy, who has since been given the boot,before he controversially coupled up with Olivia Attwood earning him the nickname Muggy Mike.

But the football player has now become embroiled in a love triangle, as Olivia has turned her attention right back toChris Hughes.

Meanwhile, Margate FC manager Steve Watt has since revealed his disappointment that Mike did not tell him about his plans to enter the villa.

When he joined the show, Mike confessed:The manager is going to be fuming but I dont care. It was too good an opportunity to turn down.

But Steve told Talk Sport: I wouldnt say Im fuming The disappointing factor is he hasnt let me know.

Its not an ideal situation for me Id have appreciated at least a call to say he would be going on the show.

He added:Yourre dealing with players whove got labourers jobs, plasterers jobs, whatever jobs. Hes seen it as an opportunity like he says, he cant turn down.

But the disappointing thing is that he didnt pick the phone up and let me know.

Margate FC are a non-league side with players working regular jobs alongside their training and match commitments.

Meanwhile, tonightviewers will see one couple leave the villa.

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How Wikipedia solved the knowledge problem Conservative Review I was in college when Wikipedia launched and I still remember the utter disdain with which academics regarded it at the time. The sense was, and still remains in some circles, that without certified and credentialed experts overseeing the process ...

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Rory McIlroy wont be playing this weekend at the U.S. Open. Hes headed home early after a missing the cut. Thats fine. Its tough even for the worlds best players to carve up a track like Erin Hills, especially when coming off an injury as McIlroy was this week in Wisconsin.

Thats no matter for Twitter, however! The takes must go on. Enter former professional golfer Steve Elkington, who once in a former life won the 1995 PGA Championship. Mostly since that time, hes been making bad tweets like this bigoted one about Michael Sam at the NFL Combine that got him disciplined by the PGA Tour.

Anyway, Elk tweeted an extremely Elk thing:

Rory is so bored playiing golf...without Tiger the threshold is prolly 4 majors with 100mill in bank

A quick aside on this: Rory has, again, played six times in 2017. Hes battled two minor but lingering injuries. Hes planned a wedding. Hes been in pretty decent form when playing. Theres nothing to indicate hes bored, etc, etc. Ive just spent 30 seconds responding to the substance of an Elk tweet while at the U.S. Open on a beautiful Saturday, and Im mad now.

Rory, responded, as he should:

In the annals of Twitter banter, tweeting a screenshot of your Wikipedia bio with your approximate earnings in the caption is fantastic 10 of 10, all around. Someone will pay lip service to this with words about how this isnt humble or some other sanctimonious garbage. Ignore them! This is fantastic! Imagine LeBron James responding to every Twitter idiot stumbling with DRAYMOND BETTER into his mentions with a simple Wikipedia screenshot. Its good. Sports needs more of this, golf in particular.

But we werent done. Elk (dumbly) got off the mat to respond!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand one more from Rory to finish him off:

That's why jack designed 100's of golf courses... and it's knew... mustn't have taught grammar in the 50's....

RIP Elk, whos been fired out of an airlock into space.

More than anyone in golf, Rory has to continually put up with this kind of terrible takery garbage from all over. Im here for the coming heel turn after he wins the PGA at Quail Hollow later this year.

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When in doubt, Google it.

And when in further doubt, Wikipedia it.

Certainly, it's not the most accurate source of information, but never let it be said the free online encyclopedia isn't quick off the mark when it comes to updating its information. In fact, that's exactly what we noted between 2.12 pm a few minutes after Bihar governor Ram Nath Kovind was named NDA candidate for the Presidential Election and 3.07 pm, by which point reactions had begun pouring in.

At 2.12 pm, his Wikipedia page was no more than a perfunctory one. It carried a few lines about his present occupation, a sprinkling of information about his past and a line noting that "On June 19, 2017, BJP president Amit Shah declared him as the consensus candidate for the post of Indian President." (sic)

A little over 20 minutes later (at 2.33 pm, to be precise), the Wikipedia page had expanded massively. Apart from a detailed CV, there were also what appeared to be sections from a press release detailing various achievements of 'Shri Ram Nath Kovind'.

And by 3.07 pm, the slicker and streamlined page even had a photograph on it.

Now, if only Indian politics, particularly elections, moved as quickly as Wikipedia updates do.

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