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_ Biographies of Living Persons _ Bob Parsons

Posted by: wikieyeay

Entertainting debate here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bob_Parsons

Basically Bob (CEO of Godaddy) hit the news when he posted a video of him shooting an elephant on the interwebs. This didn't go down to well and generated lots of noise on said interwebs.

For the time being no mention of this in his article, just a big 'this page is biased warning up top', this is likely to last until SlimV or one of her chums notices it.....

Posted by: EricBarbour

Indeedy doo---the "Controversy" section was http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Parsons&diff=421408964&oldid=421408567 originally.
Then, one "Justbean" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Parsons&diff=prev&oldid=421660695 about it.

And who is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Justbean? All he/she did was fight over Bob Parsons....and create http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Shot_Caller_%28film%29.
Just another "single-use account" that did one or two very specific things on-wiki, and disappeared. I see 'em all the time.
Same goes for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Organicbruce.

Here's the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Bob_Parsons.
Before this, Parsons' BLP sat untouched for months.

You may now place your bets on how long it will take some officious twit to permaban ParsonsRep (T-C-L-K-R-D) .
An openly-announced GoDaddy company account that has been editing GoDaddy-related articles since March 2008......
Oh, ye COI, where is thy sting?