Helpful edits to Tom Levitt's Wikipedia page

Having this weekend seen an article in the Telegraph about how the Wikipedia pages of certain MPs appear to be being edited by individuals with House of Commons IP addresses, we thought we'd pop along to Tom Levitt's page to see what we could find.

Well, it seems that over the past few months there have been several tit-for-tat edits and re-edits, mainly surrounding the issue of Levitt's expenses. A series of edits caught our eye.

30th October 2009 - removal of a link to the Tom Levitt's Expenses blog

16th November 2009 - removal of a section linking the Levitt expenses furore to his decision to stand down as an MP

20th April 2010 - editing of another section about Levitt's expenses - compare these two paragraphs (changes in bold):

In Late 2009 towards the end of the furore over MP's expenses, it was revealed Mr Levitt had attempted to claim for a memorial wreath. This caused outrage in the High Peak area. He late repaid this money.

In 2009 during the furore over MP's expenses, it was revealed Mr Levitt had on one occasion inadvertently submitted a claim for a memorial wreath. This caused outrage in the High Peak press even though he had never actually received any money.

10th May 2010 (today!) - editing the amended expenses section again, adding 'inadvertently' once more and removing the following text:

Questions do remain, however, over the non-payment of [[capital gains tax]] on the sale of Mr Levitt's second home in London, and the use of taxpayers' money for a new bathroom, also in London.

The same editor also peevishly removed all traces of Levitt's successor as MP, Andrew Bingham, from the sections of the page about the post of High Peak MP.

So who made all of these edits? Well, it seems that we can't discover the IP address so easily, but helpfully, the editor has decided to choose a username which possibly points to a culprit - 'Teresamarta'. Tom's wife is called Teresa, and a search on Google yields links to pages here and here which show Mrs Levitt's middle initial is 'M' and the name is Marta (name highlighted).