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> I'm on Wikipedia, get me out of here - Guardian Unlimited, Seth Finkelstein on the BLP problem
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post Wed 27th September 2006, 10:53pm
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I'm on Wikipedia, get me out of here
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 33 minutes ago
Wikipedia describes itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". With some minor exceptions, anyone can change any article - for good or ill. ...
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post Wed 27th September 2006, 10:59pm
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Wikipedia has a short biography of me, originally added in February 2004, mostly concerned with my internet civil liberties achievements. After discovering it had been vandalised, the article's existence seemed to me overall to be harmful rather than helpful.

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...src=rss&feed=20
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post Thu 28th September 2006, 2:23am
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Institutionally, Wikipedia has a difficult problem: to allow anyone to decline to be a subject of an article would be an admission that the supposed collective editing process is deeply flawed.

I swear this guy isn't me, but he sure does write a nice article!

A very good example of someone we should specifically invite over here to join our forum, if he's inclined to do so. (Or maybe he's already here...?)

Anybody know his e-mail address?
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post Thu 28th September 2006, 3:43am
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He has a blog. He already reads this site. I've corresponded with him a bit over the years, as Andrew Orlowski and Seth and I would occasionally argue via email about the Evil That Is Google before Wikipedia was even on our radar. His email is sethf AT sethf DOT com
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post Thu 28th September 2006, 8:38am
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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=dht-HTMS1cEJ&imgurl=www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/delete.jpg width=80 height=53 alt="" border=1>Man can't get himself deleted from Wikipedia
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Seth Finkelstein, writing in today's Guardian, said that his biography was vandalised on Wikipedia and subsequently propagated on sites carrying content. ...
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post Thu 28th September 2006, 8:52am
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A GEEZER who argued strongly for deletion from Wikipedia can't get himself removed.

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post Thu 28th September 2006, 10:56am
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Does The Inquirer pass WP:RS?
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post Thu 28th September 2006, 2:36pm
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Does The Inquirer pass WP:RS?

Not if Dave Gerard has anything to say about it! But this article is just referring to the Guardian article from yesterday, which is in this thread:

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3798

If Seth Finkelstein already reads WR and hasn't joined (under his own moniker, anyway), it may be that he's refrained from doing so both to maintain some professional distance, and to avoid becoming "the next Brandt" with respect to deletion of his own bio, just due to his having participated here. Both of those reasons should be respected, but either way, this is another prime example of the sort of WP press coverage I personally would like to see more of.
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post Thu 28th September 2006, 9:24pm
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Guardian Unlimited, UK - 1 hour ago
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