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

[geni]

On 16/12/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> First off, her past history. This is the stuff that a background check
> would have picked up - one doesn't seem to have been done. Fair dos,
> criticise them for that, you can consider it unfortunate or
> unforgivable according to taste. But if you don't do it, you don't
> pick up anything, however odd it may be...
>
> (I am assuming she didn't tell them. I would be quite bemused if she
> had and they employed her regardless)
>

A further complication is her initial employment by the agency.
Understable that the foundation might have expected them to pick up
any issues.


> * An incident where she was stopped by immigration sometime in June
>
> Details entirely unclear; maybe they knew about it, maybe they didn't.
> Even if they did, there's no reason they would know the *content* of
> the interview.
>

Indeed post 9/11 security etc etc.
-- 
geni