The information on Fletcher Taylor is not inaccurate. He was behind the wheel in an August 2005 accident in South Carolina which left his 22-year-old best friend dead.

But at least one prominent Taylor supporter called the move ``uncivil.'' Robert Brown, the Democratic leader of the state Senate, called on Cox to fire campaign manager Morton Brilliant.

Brown said such activity ``has no place in Georgia politics.''

``Cathy Cox owes a public apology to the Taylor family,'' he said.

``We are calling on Ms. Cox to fire her campaign manager, Morton Brilliant, who did this for Ms. Cox, and any others involved in this incident.''

The Cox camp said they were looking into the matter.

``We just heard about this and we are working with our information technology experts to address this,'' Cox spokesman Peter Jackson said.

Asked if the Taylor campaign's accusation was accurate Jackson said it raises ``more questions than answers.''

Revisions to the lieutenant governor's profile on Wikipedia, a popular online encyclopedia, can be traced to an Internet address registered to Brilliant, the Taylor camp said.

The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, confirmed late Tuesday that the edit to Taylor's biography traced back to the Cox campaign. But he said he had no way of knowing who made the change.

Wales said there were no plans to remove the reference to Taylor's son from the site because it met a standard for newsworthiness. But he said Wikipedia tries to avoid information posted by a candidate's opponent.

``It's not generally considered in good taste,'' he said.

Wikipedia has been under fire recently for allowing online contributors to post inaccurate information on its site. The most prominent case involved an entry on John Seigenthaler Sr., a prominent journalist whom a Wikipedia entry linked to the assassinations of John and Robert F. Kennedy. The man who posted the false information later said he was playing a joke.

Almost any Wikipedia reader may edit any of the site's million-plus listings. That has made it an increasingly popular cyberspace attack tool. Political partisans have used the site to smear the credentials of a rival and to polish the resume of a boss. The problem became so widespread that Wikipedia staff have set up alerts that notify them when Capitol Hill staffers are detected rewriting online profiles.

The issue hit home in Georgia recently when U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, a Macon Democrat, had his profile rewritten by a man who now works for his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mac Collins. The profile was edited to refer to Marshall as ``a faux conservative.'' Most of the changes have since been removed from Marshall's Wikipedia biography.

Wikipedia's operators have moved to tighten submission guidelines since the Seigenthaler incident, but critics complain they have not gone far enough.

Cox and Taylor are battling for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue. Georgia's primary is July 18.

Fletcher Taylor, 21, is awaiting trial on charges stemming from the accident in Charleston, S.C. Following his arrest, he was ordered to spend time in an alcohol treatment center.

Taylor has spoken only sparingly of his son's arrest.

In an interview with The Associated Press shortly after the incident Taylor said ``my faith tells me this can make me even stronger as a public servant.''

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