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(a)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 Cat
On 6/27/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe(a)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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