Quoting George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
On Dec 13, 2007 8:01 PM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
Keep in mind that there are verifyably hundreds of Carolyn Doran's in the US. It's entirely possible she's not the same person who committed those other crimes. I don't know how good Cade Metz' fact checking is on that point; it needs to be verified, but I wouldn't assume it to be true.
If it isn't true the Foundation and Doran should sue The Register for libel. If this is wrong it might even constitute sufficiently reckless behavior to be actionable in the United States, and certainly would be libel in Great Britain where the Register is. However, I doubt even the Register would be this sloppy. I'd be willing to bet about 8 to 1 that this is the same Carolyn Doran.
Based on who appears to be feeding information to Metz, he has sources that have falsified information before both for press and community attacks on Wikipedia before.
Really? What evidence do we have that Metz has relied on any sources that have falsified information for the press? Falsified information to attack Wikipedia yes, but to information given to the press as far as I can tell (the previous articles were terribly distorted but did not appear to be have falsified information per se. Much more of an issue with leaving out relevant details).