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The Six Sins of the Wikipedia, Or, "Why Sam Vaknin's bio got deleted"

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RSS Feed Reader Group: Bots Posts: 3,147 Joined: Member No.: 94	The Six Sins of the Wikipedia Global Politician, NY - 41 minutes ago It is a question of time before the Wikipedia self-destructs and implodes. It poses such low barriers to entry (anyone can edit ...

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Daniel Brandt	Post #2
Postmaster Group: Regulars Posts: 2,473 Joined: Member No.: 77	There's a longer history behind the Sam Vaknin story: Google cache of deleted bio Talk page is still there Sockpuppetry accusations "Danny" is Danny Wool. It's not surprising that Wool went around deleting stuff once Sam Vaknin's case was brought to the attention of Brad Patrick, as indicated in Vaknin's article. Vaknin is one more person who is ticked off at Wikipedia. But unlike some who get ticked off, he has years of experience with Wikipedia and knows how it works. His article is a rather good summary of what's wrong with Wikipedia.

Herschelkrustofsky	Post #3
Member Group: Members Posts: 5,199 Joined: From: Kalifornia Member No.: 130	QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Sun 2nd July 2006, 8:41pm) Vaknin is one more person who is ticked off at Wikipedia. But unlike some who get ticked off, he has years of experience with Wikipedia and knows how it works. His article is a rather good summary of what's wrong with Wikipedia. Agreed. And the proliferation of such articles, combined with more scandals of the Adam Carr variety, spell the end of Wikipedia as we knew it.

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