Rachel Marsden fluffing her BLP again Options

[carbuncle]

At one point, former Jimbo flame Rachel Marden's BLP was fully protected and carefully watched. Now, anyone can come along and pronounce her dead. Thankfully, a French IP responds to such vandalism as if changes were being automatically sent to Marsden's own Blackberry.

Today a French IP added some new information to the article. Marsden is apparently now an author:

In November 2011, she published the book, American Bombshell: A Tale Of Domestic And International Invasion, described as a roman à clef.

Here's the synopsis of this self-published ebook from Amazon:

In this breakthrough novel by political and media figure Rachel Marsden, Catherine Carson is the newest right-wing television star and co-host for America's top-rated television news network: BUX News. Carson, a former Republican strategist and Iraq War spin doctor, is known as a gifted sniper in both political backrooms and on-air verbal combat, but quickly discovers that no battle compares with those fought in the corridors of the television news giant. Suddenly leaving the network in a storm of speculation, she heads to Paris, France, on vacation – the last place anyone would expect to find an American right-wing opinion leader. A chance encounter leads to a new position advising the eccentric President of France, as Carson falls under the spell of the country's most popular politician – the President's nemesis – who seduces her into the biggest fight of her life, on the battlefield of love. In both work and romance, she wonders if she finally may have pursued her quest for adventure too far.

[Silver seren]

You missed something. Look at the diff for the IP's edit. Now, look at the reference given. If you notice, the actual URL link is to her website, but the IP then added <ref name="wsj"> to the front of the reference, which causes it to form as the Wall Street Journal ref used elsewhere in the article, which, of course, has nothing about her book in it.

The website URL doesn't actually link from anywhere, it's just hidden in the edit code of the page, so i'm not sure what use it is, but that's still pretty sneaky and something i've not seen before.

[thekohser]

...that's still pretty sneaky...

I think this is a classic case of where you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be chalked up to error. Marsden probably just copied the earlier citation, then replaced the URL, intending that that is what would and should show up on the WP page.

[Michaeldsuarez]

...that's still pretty sneaky...

I think this is a classic case of where you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be chalked up to error. Marsden probably just copied the earlier citation, then replaced the URL, intending that that is what would and should show up on the WP page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=459445198

Silver_seren even included that "sneaky" accusation in his edit summary.

[Silver seren]

...that's still pretty sneaky...

I think this is a classic case of where you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be chalked up to error. Marsden probably just copied the earlier citation, then replaced the URL, intending that that is what would and should show up on the WP page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=459445198

Silver_seren even included that "sneaky" accusation in his edit summary.

Do we know that that IP is Marsden? We can assume, I suppose. Is she currently in France?

And I consider it sneaky promotion, nonetheless. Linking to a personal website to publicize an e-book and making sure to put it in the lede so everyone will see it isn't appropriate at all.

[Michaeldsuarez]

Do we know that that IP is Marsden? We can assume, I suppose. Is she currently in France?

And I consider it sneaky promotion, nonetheless. Linking to a personal website to publicize an e-book and making sure to put it in the lede so everyone will see it isn't appropriate at all.

You could've made your revision without making an accusation. Can you please be more careful with accusations in the future? Innocent until proven guilty. Show some responsibility. You're an editor (in the newspaper sense) now, so please be a responsible editor.

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