[WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.

[George Herbert]

On Dec 15, 2007 2:29 AM, Christiano Moreschi
<moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> That's as may be - though I will point out that Carolyn Doran would not even have stood up to a Google search, let alone a criminal records check - the whole-shooting-the-boyfriend thing wound up in the Washington Post.

If one searches on her maiden name and not married / widowed name, one
finds the Post articles.

If one doesn't already KNOW that's her maiden name, there's nothing in
the Wikipedia info about her that contains her maiden name, so there's
nothing to clue in where to start looking for it.

Cade Metz may have gotten that off her arrrest records in Florida;
guessed that the middle name was maiden, and searched from there.  If
you don't already know about those, or her maiden name from more
detailed HR records, I don't know how anyone could find it.

>Seems like it took the wikinewsies approximately 5 minutes to find
the archived stories.

Once they knew what to look for.  Confirming something once you know
particulars is much easier than knowing what to look for in the first
place.

>From there, again, it seems as though plenty of US states keep online
free jail records, easily accessible, and certainly plenty do keep
records of current inmates of the state prisons, again accessible
online and for free (including Florida, which have a very dandy "Find
an inmate" search button)! Remarkable!
>
> The one thing I don't understand is this. Jimbo says he had no knowledge of this whole Carolyn Doran business until it hit The Register. That's fine, I guess we have to believe that. Did no one bother to tell him? Evidently not. I refuse to believe that no one at WMF knew anything until The Register made their phone call/published the story. What I am asking is who knew what when. The whole reaction to this has been one of confusion - this was always going to hit the press anyway, so surely a more coordinated response could have been planned?


Assuming bad faith and incompetence?  Tsk.


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-george william herbert
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