QUOTE(bambi @ Wed 30th December 2009, 9:22am)
While my story of incivility remains held for moderation, to his credit I did get email from Jimbo this morning asking me to forward him the email I referenced in my comment. I did so, and am hopeful of hearing back from him about it.
In the meantime, here's what I submitted:
QUOTE(me)
It’s ironic that Jimbo Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, would be on the board of this group, considering Wikipedia is one of the most hostile online environments I’ve encountered.
Here’s my story.
I discovered that a former journalist was violating multiple Wikipedia policies in the course of dramatically skewing articles relating to a specific form of stock market fraud. Basically, he was trying to cover the crime up. I blogged about what I had found, and one day, discovered a Wikipedia article about me had been created. It’s sources were comprised of nothing but this former journalist and his friends. The article was grossly slanted.
Recently, I’ve come to possess a series of private email exchanges in which this article is discussed. The person who created it admits that he did it to harm me. He was proud of that fact.
Jimbo Wales was on that email list, but did nothing.
Fortunately, the article was eventually removed, no thanks to Mr. Wales.
(Your comment is awaiting moderation.)
Because the content of those emails would be of interest to folks here, I've started a new thread about it.
You can read it here.
Jimbo's new website, Civilination.org promises new finger-waggling, scolding features
