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post Mon 10th December 2007, 12:22am
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I am telling you the surname Shankbone does not exist. No one has it except this person indicating it is not his birth name.
In ANY country? If so, then he posts to social networking groups under a fake name. It sounds like a real name to me.

It certainly doesn't exist in the UK. Lots of plausible-sounding surnames don't exist, like Windowbox.
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post Mon 10th December 2007, 12:28am
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It certainly doesn't exist in the UK. Lots of plausible-sounding surnames don't exist, like Windowbox.

It's OK guy- mystery solved . It does seem strange to me that the Jerusalem Post article mentioned his wiki-pseudonym rather than his real name- I assume the Israeli Foreign Ministry know that David Shankbone is not his real name? mellow.gif
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post Mon 10th December 2007, 12:43am
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I assume the Israeli Foreign Ministry know that David Shankbone is not his real name?

Do they know that Wikinews refused to accredit him?
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post Mon 10th December 2007, 12:46am
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I assume the Israeli Foreign Ministry know that David Shankbone is not his real name?

Do they know that Wikinews refused to accredit him?

They eventually did accredit him in September, support led by Brian McNeil and Cary Bass.
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post Thu 13th December 2007, 2:05pm
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This Shankbone certainly gets himself fully involved in the encyclopedia project. I am always impressed (but never amazed) at the volume of discussion that takes place on various debates within Wikipedia.

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He seems to be well-positioned to contribute to Pubic Affairs Reporting.
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article is here

The writing is not so good and there's not a whole lot of story to it, but there was one interesting non sequitor.

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Until the cab driver turned around and smiled through his boozy breath, my mind had raced with thoughts of my life ending head bowed on Al-Jazeera, surrounded by gunmen forcing me to denounce my country. I thought about Gay Talese, desperate to go to Iraq, who told me he would tell “the bastards” to “go ahead, make my day” because he would die doing what he loved: working on a story. Strangely, I found solace in my drunken driver to distract me from these thoughts, and instead I thought about Carolyn Doran, the former Wikimedia COO who has caused a firestorm for the foundation when they hired her unaware that not only is she a quadruple-convicted drunk driver, but that she also shot a boyfriend.

wha...? huh.gif

They are discussing the article on foundation l
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