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Essjay's lies have been slashdotted

The first response takes my breath away:

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For me this is just more proof that it doesn't matter what degrees you have under your belt, it's what you DO that matters. This guy is obviously intelligent and motivated. He has helped to produce one of the best information sites in the world. If he wants to have an alter web identity, more power to him. Just leave him alone.


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This is a regularly updated post tracking all media coverage.

Mainstream newspapers:
  1. Boston Globe's Brainiac: Wiki-democracy (blog?)
Online news organizations:
  1. Radar Online: Ode to Wikipedia Riddled with Errors
  2. CNet: Wikipedia 101, Check your sources - 3 comments
  3. The Inquirer: Wikipedia 'expert' lied about qualifications
  4. Slashdot: Academic Credentials and Wikiality - 400+ comments
  5. iTWire: Wikipedia, did one of its admins lie?
  6. Chronicle of Higher Education: Wikipedia, did one of its admins lie? (magazine for academics)
  7. The Register: Bogus Wikipedia Prof. was blessed then promoted
  8. BitTech News: Wikipedia manager lied about background (blog?)
  9. Tech Dirt: Does The Mistaken Identity Of A Wikipedia Editor Reflect Worse On Wikipedia... Or The New Yorker? (blog?)
Social aggregators:
  1. TechMeme: What The New Yorker Article Fraud Tells Us About Wikipedia - 7 blog posts
  2. Digg: Jimmy Wales defends a massive liar - 1000+ diggs (front page), 80+ comments
Blog coverage: (red= noted Wikipedians/Former Wikipedians) (blue = prominent commentator)
  1. Rough Type: Never trust an avatar - 5 comments
  2. Valleywag: Wikipedia expert fabricates his own bio - 2 comments
  3. Freakonomics: Wikipedia Oops - 22 comments, 1 repost
  4. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Wikipedia New Yorker Article Misrepresentation Exposed - 5 comments
  5. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: What The New Yorker Article Fraud Tells Us About Wikipedia - 19 comments
  6. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Jimmy Wales Defends Wikipedia New Yorker Article Fabricator - 2 commends
  7. Hacking Cough: On Wikipedia, nobody's sure you're a prof - 2 commends
  8. MetaFilter: On Wikipedia, no one knows you're a 24-year-old with no credentials - 63 comments
  9. XODP: Respected Wikipedian Lies to the Press - 2 comments
  10. Nathan: Wikipedia expert fabricates his own bio
  11. yesh omrim: Fact checking a fact checker
  12. Bizsolutionsplus: Trusting Wikipedia Could Make You Stupid - 2 comments
  13. Dave Copeland: A new kind of Anthem
  14. Rex Hammock: A Wikipedia oops? Or, a New Yorker oops? - 1 commend
  15. Regret the Error: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a 24 year-old with no advanced degrees
  16. WebProNews: Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud
  17. Mathew Ingram: Jimmy Wales is wrong about Essjay
  18. TechNudge: Wikid, Wikidpedia
  19. BlogWorldExpo: Wikipedia Founder Has “No Problem” with Fraud - 4 comments
  20. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Wikipedia Firmly Supports your Right to Identity Fraud
  21. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Our registration policy - how we check identities
  22. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Larry Sanger proven right about Wikipedia
  23. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: More on certain fraudulent Wikipedians
  24. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Why Jimmy Wales must dismiss Ryan Jordan from the ArbCom
  25. Cyde Weys Musings: How to deal with liars on Wikipedia?
  26. Cyde Weys Musings: More fallout over the Essjay scandal
  27. Musings of a Chicagoan: Wikireality and Reality Amusingly Collide
  28. Kottke: He's not a doctor, but he plays one on the web
  29. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Wikipedia Admin Loses His Religion
  30. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Wikipedia editor faces consequences
  31. SecretLondon: Wikipedia bullshitters
  32. infrogmation: I don't like this
  33. Memestreams: Wikipedia Source For 'New Yorker' A Fraud
  34. Applied Epistemology: The 24-year-old who cried "I'm a professor of theology"
  35. Maverick Philosopher: The Reliability of Wikipedia
  36. Jason Scott's ASCII: J.S. on Essjay (topic of a talk at upcoming notacon)
  37. Tech Liberation Front: Wikipedia Doesn’t Make You Coffee Either
  38. Will of the People: For Better or For Woes
  39. The Dog Killer: Fakeipedia
  40. DRLer: 学术身份谎言与维基百科
  41. MKemp's Balance: Wikipedia and Groucho Marx
  42. 300km North of Moscow: Wikipedia credentials put to the test
  43. Ζειν Ακινδύνως: Wikipedia, μια ακίνδυνη ιστορία
  44. Complete Geek: Pray for Essjay
  45. Phineas Gage Fan Club: The Good, the Bad, and the Wikipedia
March 3 blog coverage:
  1. Andrew Lih: Wikipedia Crisis in 60 Seconds
  2. Wikipedia Weekly: Essjay Special Espisode (Podcast)
  3. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Jimbo Responds on Essjay
  4. Cyde Weys Musings: Jimbo Wales Asks Essjay to Resign
  5. Rough Type: Head Wikipedian
  6. Larry Sanger's Citizendium: Jimmy Wales Latest Response on the Essjay Situation
  7. XOPD: Credentialists and impostors
  8. Digital Rights Manifesto: Seth Finkelstein Hammers the Point Home
  9. WikiP: Jimmy Wales Has Diminished Weirdness of Essjay Scandal
  10. About Theology: Academic Credentials and Wikiality
  11. OR Blog: I Guess I should write about Ryan
  12. Planet KH: Truth as a Great Lie
  13. Slashdot: Wikipedia's Wales Reverses Decision on Problem Admin
  14. Facts Dat Are Interesting: Essjay OMG
  15. Jeff Milner: Jason Scott on Wikipedia Editor Essjay
  16. Andrew Lih: Essjay's Third Transgression
  17. Sassafrassin: The Peter Principle In Wiki Land
  18. WikiP: Andrew Lih Underscores Severity of the essjay case
  19. Nathan: Essjay's Third Transgression
  20. Gary Kirk: Essjay
March 4 blog coverage:
  1. Freakonomics: A Wikipedia Reversal
  2. Tales of Drudgery and Boredom: Retired
  3. IM2 | OQP: support in this matter was fully based on a lack of knowledge
  4. SecretLondon: Wikipedia update
  5. Angela Beesley: A Sad Loss
  6. XODP: Closure still lacking in Essjay scandal
  7. http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/105656.html
  8. DIGG: Citizendium slams Jimmy Wales apology of Essjay fraud sysop
  9. Kelly Martin's Nonbovine Ruminations: Essjay quits
  10. Burning Bird: Wikipedia Walking
  11. Grant's Rants: The new impermanence (slow return)
  12. TechLiberation: The Bizarre Chip on Nick Carr’s Shoulder
  13. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Jimmy Wales Reverses On New Yorker False Credentials, Asks Resignation
  14. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: Wikipedia's Value System
  15. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: New Yorker Article Fabricator Retires From Wikipedia
  16. WikiP: Essjay has retired from Wikipedia
  17. Seth Finkelstein's Infothought: New Yorker Wikipedia "Essjay" Fraud Aftermath
  18. Ultra Black Shadow: Essjay You're Fired
  19. Roger Cadenhead's Workbench: Jimmy Wales invites admin success
  20. Cyde Weys Musings: Essjay Quits Wikipedia
  21. Joe Duck: Sex, lies, videotape, and Wikipedia
  22. Lux et Veritas: Help wanted?
  23. Jason Scott's ASCII: Another Essjay Essay
  24. OmegaWiki: About Reputation and Education
  25. Science Roll: Overview of the recent serious wikipedia scandal
  26. Messages from the Outhouse: Wikipedia wallows in self pity and denial after resignation of admin
  27. What Really Happened: Wikipedia: Jimbo Wales backpeddles from EssJay scandal (link only)
March 5 coverage:
  1. New York Times: A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side <-- WOOT.
  2. DIGG: EssJay Resigns from Wikipedia
  3. http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/106157.html
  4. ZigZigger: Wikilinks
  5. Rex Hammock: Jimbo Wales decides faux-PhD should resign his “positions of trust” on Wikipedia
  6. Out of Egypt: the moral bankruptcy of wikipedia
  7. Freedom to Tinker: Fact check, The New Yorker versus Wikipedia
  8. German Wikipedia Courier: Wikipedia und der falsche Professor (Wikipedia Signpost Equivalent)

NOTE: There is way too much media coverage to list here now that the story exploded into the mainstream. More coverage than you want can be found here:

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And finally, CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/03/0...s.ap/index.html

"Robert Seigenthaler"? It was John Seigenthaler Sr., CNN! Yeesh! The media really doesn't check up on their facts. Ain't that right, The New Yorker ?

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