`  == Annual ``Silly Season`` post ==  Already rather silly edits are being made, especially to BLPs of political figures (including such massively important trivia as music preferences etc. of possible candidates for office).  IMHO, the use of BLPs for campaign purposes is one of the vilest of uses of Wikipedia, and the practice has gotten so widespread that it might be better to simply protect all such articles for the duration of ``silly season`` than to fend off the drive-by edits.   Wikipedia should not be used for political purposes, period.   Cheers.   `