[WikiEN-l] "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

[Alan Liefting]

Some time ago {{fact}} I had real trouble getting an admin to delete a 
blatant hoax.

Alan

On 17/05/2012 12:09 p.m., WereSpielChequers wrote:
> If you spot something is a blatant hoax and delete it after 26 seconds I
> think you'll find that even the most ardent inclusionists are as intolerant
> of hoaxes as we are of attack pages.
>
> WSC
>
> On 16 May 2012 19:38, Tom Morris<tom at tommorris.org>  wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 16:49, Gwern Branwen wrote:
>>> Indeed. Why *are* the skeptical geeks now on Reddit and not Wikipedia?
>>
>>
>>
>> 26 minutes? I'm trying to imagine how much the angry inclusionists would
>> be soiling my talk page with accusations of BITEyness if I had IAR deleted
>> this page after just 26 minutes. ;-)
>>
>> The question also presumes that Wikipedians are not also Redditors.
>>
>> --
>> Tom Morris
>> <http://tommorris.org/>
>>
>>