On 0, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info scribbled:
-----Original Message----- From: Anthony [mailto:wikimail@inbox.org] Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2007 02:37 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] FredBauder"clarifies"onattack site link policy
On 7/5/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Essjay_controversy&diff=next&a... and on examining what was inserted, no confidential or abusive material was linked to.
Reading the entire thread, some of the comments there certainly aren't nice...
Not that I personally think that justifies blocking anyone inserting a link to the thread, but some others seem to think it does.
It's a close question. It seems Daniel Brandt may have noticed Essjay before the rest of us. That is important for our history if not for any article. It does seem to be original research, at least until someone writes the book.
Fred
No, not really. I keep trying to set the record straight, but people keep removing it...
Brandt was interested in Essjay, to be sure, but he was not the first person to wonder how a tenured professor could spend so much time on Wikipedia, nor was he the first person to notice the discrepancy between the Wikia profile and the WP one. Those honors go to a number of other WRites and 'pedians (go read through old revisions of [[User talk:Essjay]] if they haven't been deleted or Oversighted. At least 2 or 3 non-Brandt persons asked Essjay about it before things started happening).
IIRC, Brandt wasn't even the person who suggested that the New Yorker be contacted, although he did eventually send it (which makes sense since of everyone on WR who was interested in it, he was the most famous one and so a letter from him would be taken more seriously).
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