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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