Mitt Romney Wikipedia access bound down

The Wikipedia pages of US presidential applicant Mitt Romney and added associates of the Republican affair who may run alongside him accept been bound down.

Wikipedia has put a argent padlock figure on the top appropriate duke ancillary of their entries.

This agency that bearding users cannot accomplish beat changes to agreeable apropos to the politicians.

The measures were taken afterwards amateur Stephen Colbert appropriate on US TV that admirers should adapt the pages.

Mitt Romney afresh accustomed the abutment of Hollywood amateur and administrator Clint Eastwood

Mr Colbert was afterward up on beforehand media letters suggesting that the acceptance of acclamation candidates could be bent by the cardinal of edits their entries on Wikipedia had received, advance media coordinator David Gerard told BBC News.

As a result, added bodies started to boggle with the politicians' pages.

They now accept a fractional lock, acceptation that bearding users and those after a Wikipedia annual are currently clumsy to accomplish changes to the pages of Mr Romney, Senators Rob Portman and Marco Rubio, Governor Chris Christie and others.

Getting messy

"It's declared to be an album so a bit of action is accomplished but too abundant gets blowzy really," said Mr Gerard.

"We try to accumulate being as accessible as possible, so already it calms bottomward they'll apparently be accessible again."

It is decidedly important that entries about active bodies are editorially sound, Mr Gerard said.

Not abounding pages are absolutely bound down.

A Wikipedia folio about the Virginia Tech massacre, in which 32 bodies were dead at an American college, is absolutely adequate for acuteness reasons, and an commodity about episodes of Disney children's programme Hannah Montana was absolutely belted in 2011 afterward "persistent vandalism" said Mr Gerard.

"A lot of bodies don't accept what to do if there's commodity abhorrent in their article," he said.

"If you email us with a affair I swear a advance will booty the problems seriously."