[WikiEN-l] Correction to New Yorker Article

[Gwern Branwen]

"Rob Smith" <nobs03 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 3/2/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> A note: Ken Myers is a lawyer who has written about the 
Communications
>> Decency Act and its relationship to Wikipedia, and who 
delivered a paper
>> (and organized a panel) about that topic at last year's 
Wikimania.  He's a
>> bright guy with some good ideas. It's unsurprising to me that 
   he's
>> interested in controversies surrounding Wikipedia, but it does 
   seem
>> completely irrelevant to this discussion.
>> -- phoebe
>>
>
> Timeline
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> Wed 21 Feb 2007, 4:10pm Ken Myers registers an account at WR
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> Thu 22 Feb2007, 12:35pm Ken Myers last posting at WR
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> Fri 23 Feb 2007, 9:08am Yanksox registers an account at WR
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> Fri 23 Feb 2007, 12:53pm Yanksox deletes Daniel Brandt
>
> Fri 23 Feb 2007, 12:56pm Yanksox does a kamikazi dive
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> Sun 25 Feb 2007, 9:46pm nobs posts summary at Wikien-1
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> 
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=6799&view=findpost&p=22354

Rob, again, could you be a little more explicit about what sort of 
causation you see in this correlation? Yes, it is kind of odd that 
a lawyer specializing (or more modestly, has an interest in), 
would register on a message board widely known to be very critical 
of Wikipedia, involved with exactly the sort of subject material 
that raises issue that lawyer examines, and occasionally 
frequented by Wikipedia insiders just a day or 2 before a 
Wikipedia insider registers and is apparently influenced by what 
he reads to commit a quite controversial series of admin actions 
related to a cause celebre on that message board - but _post hoc 
ergo propter hoc_, as the logicians say.  Are you suggesting 
Yanksox is Ken Myers, Ken Myers contacted Yanksox and convinced 
him to do it, the other way around, or what? And then you include 
mention nobs...

I'm just not following you here.

-- 
Gwern
Inquiring minds want to know.