[WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

[Soxred93]

Unfortunately, we don't have the name of that particular admin.

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On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:04 PM [Jan 7, 2009 ], Wilhelm Schnotz wrote:

> Who ever the admin is violated our copyright policies at the very
> least as I am sure he did not give the original contributor credit
> (that is assuming that the original contributor even has the right to
> post that).
>
> For an admin to do that is probably a good reason to lose the bit.
>
> On 1/7/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123129220146959621.html
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>> "John Soong, 18, says that after he had failed to get jobs at several
>> chains that use the test, he began to poke around for an answer key,
>> driven by "altruistic, and maybe vengeful," motives. In a discussion
>> section of a Wikipedia entry, he saw a mention of a set of Unicru
>> statements and answers that had been posted there but removed. Using
>> privileges as a volunteer Wikipedia administrator, which gave him
>> access to deleted page histories, Mr. Soong, a University of Virginia
>> student, was able to recover the answer key and re-post it on
>> Facebook."
>>
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>> gwern
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