Mathias Schindler wrote:

Michael Snow wrote:

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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).

The Hebrew article, according to the interwiki link on en.wikipedia, is: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%96%27%D7%A7%...

Note that en: currently has the spelling as Jackont, whereas the Post gives it as Jacont.

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" :)

The current Hebrew article was started in 2004. There's a note on the en: talk page, also dating from 2004, confirming that there was such a controversy. Unfortunately, I can't read Hebrew to figure out what is stated there about it. The discrepancy could be because the Post somehow got the year wrong, or because the incident on he: resulted in the article being deleted and since replaced with the current article.

--Michael Snow