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regicide · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Location: United States

in Wikipedia storm
BBC News
3/6/2007

Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.

The editor, known as Essjay, had described himself as a professor of religion at a private university.

But he was in fact Ryan Jordan, 24, a college student from Kentucky who used texts such as Catholicism for Dummies to help him work.

He has retired from the site and his authority to edit has been cancelled.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6423659.stm
Published: 2007/03/06 14:39:15 GMT

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

Cads and charlatans posting information on the internet! Shocked

Whatever next? Rolling Eyes

Troll_Bait · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:39 am Post subject:

One down. How many more to go?

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

Yeah it's pretty sad. The person in question had several positions of authority in the Wikipedia project including working for a for-profit section of Wales company. Many users are up in arms not only about the scandle, but the unwillingness of those who actually run Wikipedia to allow people to discuss it.

I've participated less and less the last year or so because of people pushing their POV into articles which makes it hard to keep them neutral.

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

I don't follow wikipedia stuff much, but it does seem to me that this is a sign of the health of the project. People take the neutrality of it very serious and a scandal like this may actually make it a more reliable source in the long run.

bixlerscott · Joined: 27 Sep 2006 Location: Near Wonju, South Korea

I love Wikepedia, but I also have been aware for quite some time that the US government controls alot of the content through wealth and power. Its not communist, you can learn how to make and smoke a gravity bong if you like or learn more history, art, and science of the world than you could in 10 lifetimes, but it does have larger interests than simply sharing knowledge though building the greatest knowledge base ever.

There are huge interests who have great wealth and power in this site. And now the tip of the iceberg is surfacing that there is conspiracy present, finally. I would hate to see this site die as it is one hell of a knowledge base, but I believe it is designed to spy on who is learning about what. A national and global security measure....Thanks Uncle Sam for wasting more money America does not have...

mithridates · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:52 am Post subject:

mithridates · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:07 am Post subject:

This is my preferred approach to the problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Misza13/Nobody_cares_about_your_credentials

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue