Later, on Tuesday night, he said it was "categorically false and defamatory".
Just before Easter, News Corp Australia reached a confidential settlement with the human rights lawyer George Newhouse over an allegedly defamatory article by its star columnist and host of Ten's The Bolt Report, Andrew Bolt.
When the Guardian first approached Shapps saying that Wikipedia would be closing down this user account because Wikipedia said it was linked to him, a spokesman for the Conservative party said: "This story is completely false and defamatory.
Clearly the story is false and defamatory, a simple check of the diary shows I'm in a number of different places when these edits were supposedly being made".
Australia's richest woman is seeking to determine whether the drama is defamatory in its portrayal of her fraught relationship with her late father, Lang Hancock, and his wife Rose, a former housemaid Rinehart employed to care for her father after her mother died.
"After the substance of Mr Herman's previous defamatory and fabricated filing in Hawaii was disproved based on unassailable evidence, Mr Herman's desperation has led him to fabricate these new anonymous accusations against Mr Singer, which we will also prove to be completely false," he said.
Axact denied the allegations in a statement describing the New York Times story as "baseless, substandard, maligning, defamatory, and based on false accusations and merely a figment of imagination published without taking the company's point of view".
Harris regarded that claim - which implied she had been "bought" - as defamatory.
There were also harsh words reserved for some 2014 releases for feeding into "outdated, defamatory stereotypes", including Horrible Bosses 2, Exodus: Gods and Kings and Chris Rock's Top Five.
But while the report finds that gay jokes still persisted in comedies ("nearly every movie that comedian Kevin Hart appeared in last year featured numerous gay jokes"), it also found that there were fewer defamatory slurs used than in previous years.
When the Guardian first approached Shapps, saying that this user account would be closed down because Wikipedia said it was linked to him, a spokesman for the Conservative party said: "This story is completely false and defamatory.
