On 6/25/07, Anirudh anirudhsbh@gmail.com wrote:
the media coverage was because Wikipedia is a famous website, Essjay was not, is not. He came into limelight only because of the controversy created on the website.
Yep. That's why the article is called [[Essjay controversy]] and isn't called "Essjay" or "(I'd put his real name here but someone would probably scream "OUTING")" or "Essjay fraud" or any of the other half-dozen pejorative titles that people came up with.
Would this piece be of any value after 10 years? I think not.
Who knows - 10 years from now Wikipedia could be another one of those vaguely remembered, once trendy websites. The subject of this article is no less noteworthy than that of thousands of other articles that nobody has any inclination to get rid of
It is a serious BLP violation and should be deleted. Imagine something like
this having repercussions for the rest of your life for something which you did in your teens.
Umm..what BLP violations? I'm hard pressed to find any violations in the article right now, although I'll admit it was a very nasty battle to keep some of that stuff out.
Risker
Sir Nicholas
On 6/25/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I'd delete [[Essjay controversy]] - we only think it's notable because it's a Wikipedia-related topic. Any other website and we wouldn't have it.
There was plenty of media coverage of it - that's the usual criterion for notability of an event.
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