On 6/27/07, White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
Siegenthaler is one of them, that one doesn't slander anyone and covers the topic as a case of vandalism and its affect. Might make an interesting paper, makes a poor article. We get all sorts of vandalism daily. Why aren't those notable?
Congressman and their employees editing wikipedia for their political campaign is another controversy. Lots of other stuff [[WP:OFFICE]] looks into. Just ask anyone who worked for the office.
Don't be a dick about spelling. It isn't appreciated.
Whoa, man. Believe me, I wasn't being a dick. Sorry you took it that way.
- White Cat
On 6/27/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
What more notable incident was there that isn't covered in Wikipedia?
The
only other notable "controversy" involving Wikipedia that I know (if we consider "notable" to be stuff noted by the outside, rather than being significant to the development of Wikipedia) is the Siegenthaler mess, which has its own article.
It's "medium", by the way.
On 6/27/07, White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry wikipedia is not a median to talk about peoples sins. We are not
the
judges of Salem in witchcraft years. Very flawed approach. This isn't
the
first major incident involving wikipedia. There were many other more notable ones in the past. [[WP:OFFICE]] deals with this crap on a daily basis.
- White CatOn 6/27/07, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
A quick check discloses the the NYT gives Essjay's real name (which
is
not all that identifying: a raw google on his name produces at least six different people in the first page alone). Wikipedia hiding his name isn't going to "protect" him at all.
If we think that Wikipedia is important, then Essjay's sins are important. Either it will be an important crisis that we got past,
or
it will be the first major outbreak of a problem we never learned to deal with. Either way, people ten years from now who write about Wikipedia are going to mention the incident.
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