Government issues new Wikipedia rules for Whitehall staff after civil servant posted Hillsborough slurs
The Government has issued new Wikipedia rules for Whitehall staff after a civil servant posted Hillsborough slurs.
The Merseyside official was sacked in June after he made sick changes to Wikipedia pages on the 1989 disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool FC fans.
The ECHO revealed that while working as an administrative officer, the man edited the phrase Youll never walk alone, to read: Youll never walk again.
He also wrote This is a s***hole on the Anfield Wikipedia page and nothing for the victims of the Heysel disaster to a section of the site dedicated to the stadiums Hillsborough memorial.
The new guidelines, titled social media guidance for civil servants read: Care should be taken when editing collaboratively edited websites such as Wikipedia and engaging with chat forums and commentable articles posts can be linked back to government IP addresses.
Anyone found to be making inappropriate edits will be disciplined which could lead to dismissal.
The man behind the posts, in his mid-twenties and originally from the south of England, was dismissed for gross misconduct.
The junior officer was not named at the request of Hillsborough support groups.
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An inquiry was launched after the edits were revealed in April, which was overseen by Liverpool-born MP Andy Burnham.
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Government issues new Wikipedia rules for Whitehall staff after civil servant posted Hillsborough slurs