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Banks editing Wikipedia

I heard about this site the other day, but hadn’t looked closely till now.  You can search on companies that have performed changes to Wikipedia, including the number of edits, but no date range, at least that I could see.

Here are the top 15 or so when I searched for Bank.  Bank of America, and Deutsche Bank are the leaders, with Royal, BMO and TD showing up there, from Canada.

Hat tip to Nishad.

Looking for organizations…

Found 100 IP ranges for ‘Bank’

IP Range Name Domain Location # Edits
160.83.72.0-73.255 Deutsche Bank db.com [web] New York, New York, United States 1864
171.159.129.0-160.231.255 Bank Of America pacbell.net [web] Concord, California, United States 1396
142.245.0.0-255.255 Royal Bank Of Canada infonet.com [web] Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1035
206.195.19.0-255 Mellon Bank mellon.com [web] East Orange, New Jersey, United States 1010
142.205.141.0-255.255 Toronto Dominion Bank tdbank.ca [web] Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1008
171.161.160.0-255 Bank Of America pacbell.net [web] Dallas, Texas, United States 990
194.75.128.0-255 Ftip002877327 Halifax & Bank Of Scotland yourautochoicefinance.com [web] Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom 980
160.83.32.0-255 Deutsche Bank db.com [web] Astoria, New York, United States 967
155.136.73.0-209.255 Royal Bank Of Scotland demon.co.uk [web] -, –, United Kingdom 926
147.114.163.0-255.255 Nat West Bank Group – New York, New York, United States 873
171.159.64.0-255 Bank Of America pacbell.net [web] Walnut Creek, California, United States 827
193.34.230.0-231.255 Lloyds Tsb Bank Plc – London, England, United Kingdom 810
194.75.129.0-255 Ftip002877327 Halifax & Bank Of Scotland yourautochoicefinance.com [web] Leeds, England, United Kingdom 804
203.57.240.0-241.255 National Australia Bank Limited – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 753
198.96.180.0-255 Bank Of Montreal bmo.ca [web] Toronto, Ontario, Canada 745
170.201.0.0-204.255 Pnc Bank – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 725
160.254.108.0-255.255 The Bank Of New York – New York, New York, United States 682

7 thoughts on “Banks editing Wikipedia”

  1. Looks like the site is still getting slammed and not accepting the page specific queries which I think are more interesting.

    It could separate the evil wikipedia editing by banks from the benevolent ones. If bank associates are modifying their company’s description that seems suspect, but if they’re helping make some area of knowledge clearer. wouldn’t that be a good thing?

    Especially if not even remotely connected to making a company’s image better or helping its business or smearing competitors. Say like, I just like stats and I’m helping improve some entries…
    Bank Associate Brent : )

  2. Sorry to be dense, but I’m not sure I really understand what the page you link to is saying.

    Are those the number of edits someone from the bank’s IP address has made to their OWN bank’s Wikipedia page? Or ANY Wikipedia page?

    Could this just be a case of someone (or more likely, someones) from those banks who are just simply active editors/contributors to Wikipedia?

  4. @Brent …. I actually don’t associate good or bad with this relative to Banks just yet, mainly because the stat isn’t clearly defined, per Ron’s comment. Just interesting. Its certainly good in the sense that those Banks are active online …. where are the others??

  5. Colin – I think you may be reading too much into that list. It just gives the total # of edits on any topic, not necessarily edits to their own page. Clicking on the checkbox next to the IP range and then the “Wikipedia Edits Ahoy” button hidden near the bottom of the page will bring up all the topics that were edited…. I tried it with the Deutsche Bank IP range that was the first result, and very few edits are for banking terms (Derek Jeter, The Simpsons, Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Constest, etc)…

    So maybe not as scandalous as editing their own entries – but there sure seem to be a lot banks that are having trouble keeping their employees occupied with ‘real’ work.

    Link to the specific edits: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=160.83.72.0-73.255

  7. I work for a bank and recently updated it to reflect our bank, this will become increasingly important in the future! Thanks for all the great articles Bankwatch…

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