I think it's safe to say that anyone intentionally doing steps 1-4 as you described is guilty of inserting misinformation into WikiFur, and I'm pretty sure GreenReaper will agree with me. It's already something they have to watch out for on Wikipedia, whether it's done intentionally by a single editor or by accident by multiple editors - that is to say, something incorrect is added to an article, a journalist refers to the Wikipedia article when writing an article for a news publication, the publication then gets cited as a "reliable source" in support of the incorrect information. By the way, if that was going on during the incident being referred to in this discussion, I was not aware of it until now.
I think it's safe to say that anyone intentionally doing steps 1-4 as you described is guilty of inserting misinformation into WikiFur, and I'm pretty sure GreenReaper will agree with me. It's already something they have to watch out for on Wikipedia, whether it's done intentionally by a single editor or by accident by multiple editors - that is to say, something incorrect is added to an article, a journalist refers to the Wikipedia article when writing an article for a news publication, the publication then gets cited as a "reliable source" in support of the incorrect information. By the way, if that was going on during the incident being referred to in this discussion, I was not aware of it until now.