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An examination of the 62,267 changes and additions Joshua Boyle made to Wikipedia before he and his wife were held captive in Afghanistan and his recent arrest on more than a dozen criminal charges reveals persistent activity on terrorism, Nazi women, torture devices, snipers and sex acts including bondage.

Boyle did extensive, perhaps obsessive, work as an avid unpaid contributor to the public-source online encyclopedia on a wide variety of subjects, spending several hours almost every day adding and deleting inform­­ation and arguing with other editors for years.

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His involvement in Wikipedia started on Oct. 20, 2004, at 5 a.m. when he added information about an obscure Star Wars bootleg from Turkey. That day he created his first Wikipedia profile under the user name Sherurcij with the biography: “Just some 21 year old student that works on Wikipedia in his spare time…”

It turns out he had a lot of spare time.