[WikiEN-l] Attack Site Wars, Episode VII... The Return of the Essjay

[White Cat]

Sorry wikipedia is not a median to talk about peoples sins. We are not the
judges of Salem in witchcraft years. Very flawed approach. This isn't the
first major incident involving wikipedia. There were many other more notable
ones in the past. [[WP:OFFICE]] deals with this crap on a daily basis.

    - White Cat

On 6/27/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A quick check discloses the the NYT gives Essjay's real name (which is
> not all that identifying: a raw google on his name produces at least
> six different people in the first page alone). Wikipedia hiding his
> name isn't going to "protect" him at all.
>
> If we think that Wikipedia is important, then Essjay's sins are
> important. Either it will be an important crisis that we got past, or
> it will be the first major outbreak of a problem we never learned to
> deal with. Either way, people ten years from now who write about
> Wikipedia are going to mention the incident.
>
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