The latest prominent "WikiEnemy" to emerge: Harlan Ellison. (See the talk page of his article for a big, vitriolic anti-Wikipedia rant allegedly authored by him.)
On 12/9/05, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
The latest prominent "WikiEnemy" to emerge: Harlan Ellison. (See the talk page of his article for a big, vitriolic anti-Wikipedia rant allegedly authored by him.)
Harlan Ellison is a great SF luminary, but he is a well-known Serious Pain in the Ass. Playing well with others has never been his strong suit.
On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
The latest prominent "WikiEnemy" to emerge: Harlan Ellison. (See the talk page of his article for a big, vitriolic anti-Wikipedia rant allegedly authored by him.)
Harlan Ellison once e-mailed my favorite undergrad professor in a blinding rage because a student at my college had been writing a paper, wanted to mention "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," and posted to USENET asking if anyone knew of an online copy. The student wasn't actually one of my professor's, so he was a bit puzzled...
The point of this story is that if Harlan Ellison is frothing, you can safely conclude that the moon has not crashed into the Earth. But little else.
-Phil
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
The latest prominent "WikiEnemy" to emerge: Harlan Ellison. (See the talk page of his article for a big, vitriolic anti-Wikipedia rant allegedly authored by him.)
A year ago he got the article on himself "temporarily" reduced to a stub via complaints to Jimbo pending some sort of behind-the-scenes resolution of whatever it was that he was complaining about. That resolution apparently never came so a couple of months later I restored all the deleted material. Perhaps he's bearing a grudge over that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Harlan_Ellison#Direct_contact_with_Ellison... has what few details were put on Wikipedia about it.