QUOTE(WhispersOfWisdom @ Wed 21st November 2007, 4:35pm)
Certainly, Durova is finished as in “toast†so maybe her website will go to the back burner and the media hype she had hoped for is not now going to happen. Maybe she will try to write an article about herself and …whoops, JzG would be forced to delete it because it would be self published and her Google hits would be down to near zero. (IMG:
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Not necessarily. Essjay was appointed at Wikia, by Jimbo, after being caught lying to a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter that he was a university professor of theology. One big bad. Then he retracted by trying to explain that she had offered him money for the interview, which he honorably refused. He didnt realize that this lie of his was implying that the journalist broke huge ethical rules, if what he said was true. It wasn't, and it was actually a worse lie than the false credentials. The lie implying that the journalist offered him money set all journalists aflutter, and aghast online, and having already condoned Essjay's original lie, Jimbo asked him to resign, claiming he'd been offline in the jungle (actually, he's been in India's largest technology park, which has wireless broadband, holding a Wikicamp conference, but Jimbo got let off the hook for that little whopper).
The story of Wikipedia justice is a bigger picture of the case in question, the Durova !! ban.
Nothing will be done correctly unless they are dragged kicking and screaming to the action.
And for that to happen many things would have to fall into place. I dont see it as evident at all. She might even be elected to the Arbcom, which isn't really a pure election anyways. Until now, Jimbo had final appointment powers, and he probably still does, so he could trump the entire vote and put her in. It would not at all be surprising if he did this.
Of course, if he does, the joke will be on him, because she's a runaway train on crack. Get out the popcorn. (IMG:
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