Essjay's main contributions to Wikipedia are administrative tasks, which I still hold in high regards.
I was interested in seeing his article contributions and found out he actually rarely works in the main namespace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay/Archives/52#You.27re_famous_on_Slas... February 8, 2007
His top article contributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_the_Assumption_in_Louisvillehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral(58) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman Catholic Churchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman(24) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Louisville http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman (10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Collegehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre(9) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon (9) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush (9) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass (9)
Though he's edited topics relating to his "credentials", these contributions are not all that numerous and don't concern me too much.
-Aude
On 3/1/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
I find myself looking on it as "foolish" rather than "unacceptable". There *are* stalkers and freaks who go after WP editors [...]
While that is all absolutely true, it doesn't explain why he chose a fake identity with a PhD and a tenured professorship. I can't see any reason for that other than to get people to respect him more, which is rather disappointing, to say the least. I take anything someone says about themselves under a pseudonym with a pinch of salt, but I still wouldn't expect that kind of deception.
That's a great point.
Does anybody have numbers handy on his areas of contribution? If he never worked on the articles that he claimed false credentials in, then it would be a different thing for me.
William
-- William Pietri <william@scissor.com > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:William_Pietri
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