Spectator columnist and Telegraph blogger Toby Young has spent hours removing embarrassing information from his Wikipedia page in a sustained campaign of edits lasting more than six years. After denying bigging up his parliamentary prospects in an anonymous Spectator diary column earlier in the week, we had a bit of fun trying to get Young to deny writing about himself in the third person.

@PSbook @MrSteerpike I deny it. Mr Steerpike isn't me. It's an error. Can you correct the story please? — Toby Young (@toadmeister) September 23, 2013

We did this because we know that that he has made 200 edits to his own Wikipedia page over a period of six years. Young reckons he can get away with this because he is doing it from an account called “Tyoung8” and sometimes uses the first person pronoun in his edit summaries:

@PSbook @GuidoFawkes Yes, that's me. How did you figure that one out, Sherlock? No wait. I use the word "I" in the notes… — Toby Young (@toadmeister) September 23, 2013

So Scrapbook had a poke through his edits, whereupon it became clear he had a habit of attempting to censor embarrassing information — even when references to sources are supplied. This is a breach of Wikipedia rules.

His full edit list can be found here. Do let us know if we’ve missed something.