QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Wed 3rd March 2010, 4:07pm)
QUOTE(John Limey @ Wed 3rd March 2010, 10:39am)
I tried getting in touch with a few media types, but I have no connections, and no nibbles thus far.
Not even Cade Metz? Maybe Cade is getting tired of WP -- even the Roger Davies plagiarism dust up didn't rouse Cade from napping.
But, then again, it is not a new story -- for years, articles on WP's unreliable infrastructure have circulated. This is another to add to the pile.
Also, other fraudulent DYKs have been identified before, so this is just an extravagant variation on a well-established trick.
Yes, there was nothing particularly new here. BLP disasters and fake DYKs are as old as Wikipedia, but this one was particularly bad. I think, in retrospect, that we might have done better at attracting media attention if we had found some reporter and tipped him off before we announced the hoax on the blog, thus allowing the reporter to have the exclusive scoop.