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thekohser
post Fri 21st December 2007, 6:57pm
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It's later than I had promised, but it's finally here.

Felon became COO of Wikipedia foundation

by BRIAN BERGSTEIN, of the Associated Press



I wonder how those "The Register is just a tabloid. This is a non-event." people on Wikien-l mailing list will still be singing that tune, as this story gets picked up by (I predict) 200+ mainstream media newspapers.

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post Fri 21st December 2007, 7:13pm
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Oh, dear. We're 30 minutes since this hit the wire, and already 37 publications have re-printed it on their websites.

Should we add to the BADSITES list, the following?
  • San Diego Union Tribune
  • CBS-4 Denver
  • Brisbane Times, Australia
  • Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
  • Houston Chronicle
  • Miami Herald
  • The News & Observer (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
  • Denver Post
  • Newsday (New York)
  • Orlando Sentinel
  • Forbes
  • International Herald Tribune (France)
  • Minneapolis Star Tribune

Oh dear, oh dear. This doesn't look like a "non-story" any more, does it?

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post Fri 21st December 2007, 11:30pm
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 21st December 2007, 8:13pm) *

Oh, dear. We're 30 minutes since this hit the wire, and already 37 publications have re-printed it on their websites.

Should we add to the BADSITES list, the following?
  • San Diego Union Tribune
  • CBS-4 Denver
  • Brisbane Times, Australia
  • Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
  • Houston Chronicle
  • Miami Herald
  • The News & Observer (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
  • Denver Post
  • Newsday (New York)
  • Orlando Sentinel
  • Forbes
  • International Herald Tribune (France)
  • Minneapolis Star Tribune
Oh dear, oh dear. This doesn't look like a "non-story" any more, does it?

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Added to the time line.

The Wikien-l has picked this up too...All they seem to care about is "whether she's notable enough for a bio or not"....

Sheez, they just don't get it, do they???

Jimbo weighs in here....saying that since another, entirely unrelated financial scandal doesn't have an article, then why should this be covered in Wikipedia???

Is he therefore suggesting that this IS therefore a financial scandal? What about that audit, Jimbo? Where are we at with that?

The point should be "don't give money to Wikipedia: they can't be trusted"....

And then we have this interesting "catch-22" discussion: If we make an exception for this "notable" but "sad story", then what does this mean in the longrun for bios of living persons??


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thekohser   Associated Press discovers Carolyn Doran   Fri 21st December 2007, 6:57pm
cyofee   Woot. Submit it to Slashdot, that's the only...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:04pm
thekohser   Oh, dear. We're 30 minutes since this hit the...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:13pm
thekohser   Another interesting point is that David Gerard is ...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:30am
thekohser   [url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:50am
Moulton   Watch for other skeletons to come tumbling out the...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:15pm
Rootology   Hole in one. Ouch. http://cns2.uni.edu/~wallingf/...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:22pm
GlassBeadGame   It's later than I had promised, but it's ...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:23pm
Piperdown   oh my....to further inflame the cia thing, she did...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:28pm
Moulton   And her husband died of drowning. (Not surf-board...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:31pm
Rootology   Who will be the first to post this on wikien-l or ...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:34pm
Piperdown   Who will be the first to post this on wikien-l or...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:40pm
Rootology   this is worse than the essjay scandal, in that WP...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:43pm
jorge   http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_BOTHWELL_JAM...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:45pm
thekohser   It's been about an hour, and we're up to 6...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:56pm
Piperdown   It's been about an hour, and we're up to ...   Fri 21st December 2007, 8:03pm
Moulton   Who will be the first to post this on wikien-l or ...   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:58pm
thekohser   [quote name='Rootology' post='69053' date='Fri 21...   Fri 21st December 2007, 8:11pm
Rootology   From the get-go, he casts doubt for all of the pe...   Fri 21st December 2007, 8:13pm
Rootology   Submitted to Slashdot. Anyone Digg it yet?   Fri 21st December 2007, 7:52pm
The Joy   Hello. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory...   Fri 21st December 2007, 8:36pm
thekohser   Hello. [url=http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...   Fri 21st December 2007, 8:42pm
Piperdown   here is a very simple call of boolshit on jimmy. ...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:57am
Moulton   The AP story was carried in both the Washington Po...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:05am
thekohser   The AP story was carried in both the [url=http://...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:44am
Jonny Cache   It's later than I had promised, but it's ...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:56am
thekohser   We are up to 126 reprints in various media. Looks...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:30pm
dogbiscuit   Remember, everyone -- this is a "tempest in...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:37pm
thekohser   Jimbo appears quite contrite now: [url=http://en...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:45pm
thekohser   We are up to 288 reprints in various media (includ...   Wed 26th December 2007, 5:19pm
Moulton   The copyright notice on the AP story forbids local...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:36pm
Moulton   Brace yourselves for an era of absurd vigilantism.   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:44pm
dtobias   Perhaps what he really means is that they need to ...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:44pm
Moulton   Deciders, Gubernators, and Donators Perhaps what ...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:56pm
dtobias   But the Foundation is destined to become the nucle...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:48pm
Jonny Cache   coo coo 4 coco puffs … jonny B)   Sat 22nd December 2007, 3:48pm
thekohser   Interesting discussion taking place on the Carolyn...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:01pm
Moulton   If WP eventually does carry some kind of permanent...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:10pm
Yehudi   Of course it will carry her side. They will just...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 6:04pm
Disillusioned Lackey   If WP eventually does carry some kind of permanen...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 7:02pm
Rootology   The DRV is interesting. Because it's about Wik...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:32pm
Jonny Cache   If WP keeps going as it is, and is the #1 site on...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:38pm
WhispersOfWisdom   If WP keeps going as it is, and is the #1 site o...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:56pm
Jonny Cache   Yet Another Jimbo Walapropism … And following ...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 4:56pm
dtobias   And following our normal policies, particular WP:...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 5:00pm
everyking   This woman absolutely should have an article now. ...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 6:03pm
badlydrawnjeff   This is yet another demonstration of the old guard...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 6:48pm
thekohser   This is yet another demonstration of the old guar...   Sat 22nd December 2007, 6:53pm
thekohser   I am hoping that this is just a weird Sunday softw...   Sun 10th February 2008, 8:38pm
Piperdown   I am hoping that this is just a weird Sunday soft...   Sun 10th February 2008, 11:11pm
Moulton   News ceases being news when it become history. Hi...   Mon 11th February 2008, 5:22pm
thekohser   News ceases being news when it become history. H...   Mon 11th February 2008, 5:39pm


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