So the author, a philosophy professor, casually permitted themselves to vandalize a public resource "for science", with the only accommodation given to the public being that they generously fixed their own vandalism after 48 hours if others hadn't done so already.

Not a single word about the ethics of all this in the entire article, as far as I can tell. It's not just that they decided to do this, spreading misinformation and wasting other people's time in the process – they seem to not even have considered the impact of it.

Please re-take Foundations of Ethics 101 before presuming to teach others about philosophy.