Certified Legendary Thread Hamish Mclachlan and wikipedia - a must read for every footy fan - now going nuts on the interwebz

[The Prosecutor]

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Can someone explain all of this?

Some people noticed that the Wikipedia was much too flattering of McLachlan.

Some one has the bright spark to see who made all the entries.

One user in particular created and didn't the vast majority of editing.

The person who noticed this then googled the user name.

The username was also the name of a youtube account, with personal videos uploaded by Hamish, confirming he was the user talking himself up constantly on his wikipedia page.

 

[Gough]

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Hamish also does a significant amount of work hosting events for charities in Australia such as the Starlight Children's Foundation, Mazda Foundation, Sony Foundation, Cool Australia, Heart Kids and The Million Dollar Lunch for the Koala Foundation. He is a Director for the Captain Courageous Foundation.

McLachlan hosts up to 30 events a year and is known for preferring not to use notes or scripts.

Man's a genius.

 

[Cruyff14]

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Obviously doesn't know you should never refer to someone by their first name.

 

[Caesar]

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Some of his grammar is atrocious. Anyone who describes themselves as a Director 'for' a foundation really shouldn't have that level of responsibility.

 

[Messenger]

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Oh man, gold.

 

[jefffff34]

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Does anyone know which team he supports?

It's Geelong.

 

[Prem87]

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LOL Cheers for filling me in!

 

[jefffff34]

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Pretty happy my sneaky edits, have not only lasted the day...but on one occasion, actually been reverted back to what I put.

 

[Necromancer Beth]

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I work with him at The Age. He's actually quite a nice guy and girls love him

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

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Oh god this is gold. So has anyone dropped a link to this thread on his twitter account or something already?! Maybe send it to the guy who does Strewth! at the Oz.

 

[Selective Retention]

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Har Har

Robbo could have at least tried to use a different writing style.

 

[grizzlym]

I work with him at The Age. He's actually quite a nice guy and girls love him

Yes, I know, that's just what his wiki page says!

 

[The Speaker]

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Pretty happy my sneaky edits, have not only lasted the day...but on one occasion, actually been reverted back to what I put.

The page has now been protected with "Polo Game Day" and the like still intact.

 

[Crimson Azure]

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Is he related to Craig McLachlan?

He may just be. Cards for anyone who post a clip of any of Craig's acting or singing career.

Especially "Mona"



inb4 grizz does.

 

[grizzlym]

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That movie with the Channel 7 people - and I do believe that's Ian Johnson - with the superman cape and stuff, is like some sort of weird-arse Skull & Cross Bones Society/Freemasons kind of thing.

Anyone preserve the evidence - screen grabs and the like - before the inevitable clean up happens.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

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This is why I love BF.

 

[Silent Alarm]

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This is some mild level 4chan sh-t.

Done lads.

 

[Confuscius]

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a summary of his contributions:

....

27 october 2011:
- adds a link to his personal website http://tengoals.com.au
- struggles really hard to get the formatting for the link to work. requires a dozen attempts

etc etc

Did anyone go to that site?

Ten Goals is small. Really small. But Hamish likes it like that. It means flexibility and nimbleness, attentiveness, availability and personal relationships.

Oh God. This is great stuff

 

[The Passenger]

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el oh ****ing el

can always go after his ratings

 

[Groggyk]

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Did anyone go to that site?



Oh God. This is great stuff

hahaha.

Lost it at Hamish was born into a communist voting family and raised with South Australian sheep and cattle at Mount Pleasant.

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

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Someone want to explain the goat thing to me?

 

[Macca_]

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Article's locked now

 

[Confuscius]

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Article's locked now

Hamish has gone into overtime.

 

[BACCS]

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Went to St Peters, that explains a lot. I also went to that AFL Hall of Fame Sensation thing back in 2005 or something when I was in Melbourne... it wasn't too bad, surprised it only last 2 months.

 

[BotsMaster]

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Article only locked till April 19th.