Michael Snow wrote:
The story is about an author whose Wikipedia biography
was apparently
falsified, and the information "verified" by somebody impersonating the
author on Wikipedia. The Post is written in English, and does not
identify the Wikipedia language involved (the incident, it seems, took
place on the Hebrew Wikipedia).
I just had a quick look at google and I could not find a page on
he.wikipedia about him (maybe I did the transscription the Hebrew
letters wrong).
However, the article says "Jacont realized something was seriously wrong
in 2003, when the entry about him in the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia,
which can be edited by any of its readers, was altered to include false
criminal details about his past".
2003 was far from wikipedia's "breakthrough" in public awareness. So I
really would like to see the history or the article. After all, this
article is about people who lied and a book "L for lies" :)