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

[geni]

On 6/28/07, ElinorD <elinordf at gmail.com> wrote:
> What age was Essjay when he joined? Twenty? Twenty-one? Twenty-two? Many
> people would consider that he *was* a kid.
>
> Did he invent that persona with the intention of becoming an an
> administrator, a bureaucrat, a checkuser, an oversighter? I doubt it very
> much. I doubt if he even knew there were such things when he started.
>
> It sounds to me like an immature kid, just out of his teens, finding it fun,
> as an insignificant new user, to tell a few whoppers about being a Professor
> of Theology, then, as a result of some genuinely good qualities, becoming
> popular on Wikipedia, becoming an administrator, rising still higher, and
> finding himself trapped in the lies that he had started as before he ever
> suspected that he was going to rise to power.

Nice story would play okeyish with most juries. Misses a significant
fact. He didn't stop.

Remember his statement on wikia? That appears not have been true either:

http://www.kctcs.net/todaysnews/index.cfm?tn_date=2007-03-06#9315

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geni