[WikiEN-l] Correction to New Yorker Article

[Rob Smith]

On 3/1/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "Rob Smith" <nobs03 at gmail.com> writes:
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> > On 3/1/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 3/1/07, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad at gmail.com>
>   wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > anything you do related to Wikipedia may now
> >> > > get viewed by a potentially hostile press and outside
>       community.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > it's dinged us somewhat in the
> >> press, based on the blogosphere at least.
> >
> > Actually this matter has been brewing for some time. Amazing it
> took this
> > long to bring attention to it.
>
> True. It could've been discovered as far back as 7 January, if I
> may recount the timeline of events. It was 7 February that Essjay
> posted this:
> <http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Essjay&oldid=66549>
>
> On an interesting side note, it apparently wasn't until 21 January
> that anyone noticed - that was when an anon user brought it up on
> [[User talk:Essjay]]
> <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Essjay&oldid=102161036
> >.
> Given the anonymity, the name provided as a sig, and the linked
> website, I think we can conclude it was in fact Daniel Brandt who
> first noticed it
> <http://www.whois-search.com/whois/216.60.71.100%20>.
>
> It is also interesting to note that Essjay never replied as
> [[User:Shanel]] quite quickly reverted it. (A lapse of judgement?
> I suppose so, in the same way Yanksox had a lapse of judgement
> deleting [[Daniel Brandt]]).



I'm not so certain of that; Yanksox registered an account with WR 23 Feb
2007 9:08am
<http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=1014>

where he presumably read the series "Navigating flame wars of the Daniel
Brandt controversy" (two hours is ample time) and promptly deleted the
Brandt page on 23 Feb 2007 12:53pm.  Ken Myers, author of *Wikimmunity:
Fitting the Communications Decency Act to Wikipedia* registered an account a
day earlier 22 Feb 2007 and was active on that board for several hours at
the same time prior as well.

21st Feb 2007, 11:10pm



Yanksox deletes Daniel Brandt

Wed 21st Feb 2007, 4:10pm Ken Myers registers an account