Stefan de Rothschild, 17 year old philanthropist Options

[tarantino]

This elaborate hoax was set up with several articles created by User:Womblethereof.

It was mentioned at the Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard yesterday and all the articles have been deleted.

His 238 twitter followers and the folks at the Huffington Post (where he wrote an editorial that received 130 comments) have yet to catch on though.

Mirrors of the deleted Wikipedia articles
http://www.wikiwak.com/wak/Stefan_de_Rothschild
http://www.wikiwak.com/wak/Andrew_de_Rothschild
http://www.wikiwak.com/wak/Nathaniel_Mayer_de_Rothschild
http://www.wikiwak.com/wak/James_Mayer_de_Rothschild_II
http://www.wikiwak.com/wak/Rothschild_Estates

His current websites that are being used to perpetrate the hoax
http://www.stefanderothschild.com/
http://www.rothschildarts.org/
http://www.rothschild-estates.com/
http://www.rothschildglobalfoundation.org/

This post has been edited by tarantino: Fri 29th January 2010, 7:01pm

[carbuncle]

More proof that Tarantino is actually David Shankbone, as many of us have long suspected...

Huffington Post the future of journalism? Not when they are so easily scammed by “Stefan de Rothschild”
By David Shankbone

A guy that the Huffington Post claims is part of the famed Rothschild family is actually an impostor. Apparently, all it takes to blog there is to claim a pedigree and build a bunch of fake websites with Moonfruit: check out HuffPo’s “Stefan de Rothschild“...

And not even so much as a link back to WR!

[A Horse With No Name]

More proof that Tarantino is actually David Shankbone, as many of us have long suspected...

Considering a couple of days passed between Tarantino's initial posting here and the Shankbone version, it appears that Mr. Miller is an active reader of WR and decided to "borrow" the information.

The notion that Tarantino and Shankbone are sharing a toothbrush is utterly ridiculous.

[the fieryangel]

More proof that Tarantino is actually David Shankbone, as many of us have long suspected...

Considering a couple of days passed between Tarantino's initial posting here and the Shankbone version, it appears that Mr. Miller is an active reader of WR and decided to "borrow" the information.

The notion that Tarantino and Shankbone are sharing a toothbrush is utterly ridiculous.

I hope that is the case, for Mr. Tarantino's sake...Did anybody else notice that Shankers failed to mention using fake Wikipedia pages for spoofing in his brilliant coverage?

Meanwhile, back on Facebook, Mr. de Rothschild has founded a
[url=http://www.facebook.com/stefanderothschild#/pages/Rothschild-Global-Foundation/281958276038?v=wall] new page for the Rothschild Global Foundation.
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The Rothschild Global Foundation has one simple aim: to make the impossible possible.

We work to facilitate sustained improvement in living conditions, health and education to the global community.
Mission:
The chances are you've never been truly hungry. Hungry after days of not eating. Chances are that you never really been ill. When was the last time you couldn't phone 911 in an emergency? Chances are you can read and write. Chances are you could probably secure a small loan if you wanted to start a business or help provide for your family.

The reason you can do all this is simple. It is the same reason that you were born where you were, and why you're where you are today.

Chance.

Over a billion people around the world don't have a chance. They don't have a chance to help themselves out of poverty. To help their families, their communities and their nations out of impossible situations. So our mission is simple.

To make the impossible possible.

We work to facilitate sustained improvement in living conditions, health and education to the global community. But we aren't a charity that's too big to function. We have big goals but we're achieving them with localized, effective solutions. We believe that innovation comes not through enormous multinational schemes and projects, but through simple affordable things that will work to feed, care for or educate a village, but can be implemented in villages all around the world.

This strategy - to combat global problems with simple solutions has already helped over 5 million people get educated to a 5th grade level. It has provided over $200 million dollars worth of health care, including HIV/AIDS medicine and malaria vaccines, to those who cannot afford it. And it has fed over 30 million people, and helped over five thousand small businesses start in rural communities.

Together, with the help of the millions around the world who are so desperate to escape poverty and provide themselves and their families a better life, we can achieve something great.

We can achieve the impossible.

Now, do the real Rothschilds know about this clown and what he's up to?

Also, I noticed that Tarantino's Huffpo comment didn't get through their moderation process. I wonder what that means?