http://www.unjournalism.com/2007/03/05/wikipedias-fraudulent-editor-what-about-the-content/ Thoughts from the front lines of PR in the Web world. Helping people tell their stories. It's not journalism -- it's Unjournalism. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:02:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.unjournalism.com/2007/03/05/wikipedias-fraudulent-editor-what-about-the-content/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Mike Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:48:51 +0000 http://www.unjournalism.com/?p=54#comment-92 Interesting. That post you linked to, Mr. Esquire, was being written at nearly exactly the same time I was writing my post here. I never had any doubt that someone, somewhere was checking up on the validity of Essjay's posts. I just can't believe the New York Times didn't even <i>address</i> the issue. Interesting. That post you linked to, Mr. Esquire, was being written at nearly exactly the same time I was writing my post here. I never had any doubt that someone, somewhere was checking up on the validity of Essjay’s posts. I just can’t believe the New York Times didn’t even address the issue.

]]> http://www.unjournalism.com/2007/03/05/wikipedias-fraudulent-editor-what-about-the-content/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Internet Esquire Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:43:14 +0000 http://www.unjournalism.com/?p=54#comment-91 There's actually quite a few Wikipedians scrutinizing Essjay's edits. See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Checking_Essjay.27s_edits - However, Essjay still enjoys a great deal of support from a large number of Wikipedians with administrator privileges, and they are doing their level best to censor any and all criticism of Essjay on the Wikipedia website. Said apologists are characterizing the efforts to check Essjay's edits as "vindictive." There’s actually quite a few Wikipedians scrutinizing Essjay’s edits. See – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Checking_Essjay.27s_edits – However, Essjay still enjoys a great deal of support from a large number of Wikipedians with administrator privileges, and they are doing their level best to censor any and all criticism of Essjay on the Wikipedia website. Said apologists are characterizing the efforts to check Essjay’s edits as “vindictive.”

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