Actor Yasir Hussain’s Wikipedia page has “locked” for editing after it “vandalized heavily” in the last week; during which prominent Turkish actress Esra Bilgic mentioned as his parent; a Pakistan-based editor of the popular online encyclopedia told.
Not only this, but Yasir’s birthdate and birthplace also changed.
Pakistani internet users surprised recently to see Google search results; showing Ertugrul-famed Esra Bilgic as her parent. It later found that the information actually sourced from Wikipedia and the search engine has nothing to do with it.
Saqib Qayyum, who works on a voluntary basis for the website; said “no idea why but his bio page was heavily vandalized past week but the page locked now”.
He said, “someone (now permanently blocked) added Esra as his mother on 6th October; unfortunately the change went unnoticed; after it was rectified last week, further vandalism began”.
Qayyum, considered by the foreign media as a “prominent Wikipedia editor from Pakistan”, noted that the updates went unnoticed because of a lack of editors from the country.
The page log shared by the editor shows multiple entries from unknown accounts.
“In one instance, someone even tried to incorporate Ertugrul’s Engin Altan Düzyatan as Yasir’s father, and Marvi Sirmed and Aziz Mian Qawwal as his spouse.”
Since the website is accessible for everyone and anyone can edit the pages, hundreds of changes made on a regular basis. “Its not unusual,” he underscored.
Someone even tried mentioning porn star Dani Daniels as his spouse, he said.
The actor’s Wikipedia page has updated with the correct information but due to some unknown reason, Google is still showing the same results.
Yasir responds
Yasir Hussain, famous for his witty and quirky responses on social media, not bothered at all by this trolling.
While responding to a question, the actor said that it happened months ago when he commented on the Turkish actors.
“I don’t know what is wrong with people and I don’t believe in pages like Wikipedia where you can go and change data according to your mental health I don’t know what is it on about you or anyone else it is not that important I think for me.”
“These controversies don’t bother me.”