"Slim Virgin" <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> writes:
On 3/2/07, Rob Smith <nobs03(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> None of this would have happened
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Essjay#Outside_…
> if the circumstances that led to the creation of
the Daniel
Brandt bio had
> been dealt with fairly in both Arbitration cases
which
preceeded it..
Wow, stop right there, Nobs. You're not bringing your SlimVirgin
Review conspiracy theories onto this list.
There were no "circumstances that led to the creation of the
Daniel
Brandt bio" that are relevant to this incident,
or of any
interest. I
created the stub on Brandt because his name was
showing up as a
red
link in the article about, as I recall, Chip Berlet.
Rather than
remove the red link, I created a stub so it turned blue. End of
story.
Sarah
I second this. I've followed this from the beginning, and this
would've happened regardless of Brandt. Would it have made the
front page of Slashdot, would the New Yorker have published a
correction if he had not been involved? I do not know for
sure. But the trust in Essjay was sure to be diminished the moment
he posted his true profile to Wikia.
--
Gwern
Inquiring minds want to know.