QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Mon 26th April 2010, 12:01am)
QUOTE(ColScott @ Sun 25th April 2010, 4:45pm)
I don't think he spends a lot of time researching movies based on comic-book heros, and stuffing the results into Wikipedia in the form of many thousands of edits over the last three years.
Well perhaps Mr Kraft likes to keep his obsessions in different compartments. There is nothing in his CV about films or videos, but this
http://vimeo.com/user929513is an account he maintains about his interest in video, and here
http://fallingandlaughing.comis a whole website devoted to his musings about film and literature and poetry and so on. If you doubt this, click on the box 'Author' where there is birthdate, name and link to 'Restless Bee'.
The site reveals an obsessive interest in the films of Werner Herzog (which user:Erik has also edited about). Also an obsessive interest in Wikipedia. "For some weeks now,
I have been obsessed with the wikipedia entry on “In the Air Tonightâ€, a well-known composition by Sir Philip Collins. There is much to treasure in this article ...
sometimes the only way you can exorcise your obsession with a wikipedia article is to add an apocryphal critical quotation to it.
And behold the edits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...ns/24.11.231.53 (from a Chicago comcast IP - Kraft is a Comcast customer
http://fallingandlaughing.com/post/1797520...e-in-miserable).
I don't know why he should use an IP and not the user:Erik account. Perhaps because, as I say, he likes to keep his obsessions in different compartments. Why after all did Kraft tell Murphy that he hadn't edited Wikipedia in three years, when he clearly has edited as recently as November last year (2009)?
This post has been edited by Peter Damian: