A year and a half ago, Gonzalo ignited a debate here on WCG about Tactical Iraqi, a game funded by DARPA and created at USC ISI. Gonzalo's took the position that there is no moral way to support U.S. military aggression, even if it seems

Sometimes I follow referral links into the site, and today I noticed that we were getting some clicks from the Wikipedia page about the game (officially titled, Tactical Language & Culture Training System). Imagine my surprise upon reading how it concludes:

What? Little controversy? Clearly the entry has been cleverly modified to put the product in the best possible light from the perspective of its creators. To get the full extent of the alteration, read the salient edit.

Last month I pointed this out to WCG friend Liz Losh, who has written extensively about the game, who wrote some extensive thoughts about the Wikipedia edits, including a link to a NY Times story about the journalistic uses of Wikipedia. Clearly the article is in violation of numerous Wikipedia guidelines, but what I find more interesting is that someone saw the opposition as a credible enough threat -- perhaps to the project's commercial prospects -- that they felt compelled to edit it.