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> Stefan de Rothschild, 17 year old philanthropist
tarantino
post Fri 29th January 2010, 6:58pm
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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/

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post Mon 1st February 2010, 2:27pm
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More proof that Tarantino is actually David Shankbone, as many of us have long suspected...

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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! sad.gif
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post Wed 3rd February 2010, 3:42pm
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QUOTE(carbuncle @ Mon 1st February 2010, 9:27am) *

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


If you think David Shankbone would have scooped a story on Wikipedia Review, then waited a couple of days to rehash it on his own blog property, then you don't know David very well. If Tarantino is Shankbone, then it would have been the other way around.

You're embarrassing yourself, Carbuncle, as badly as or worse than I did last night with my "1929 minus 1912" subtraction problem.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 3rd February 2010, 3:42pm) *

QUOTE(carbuncle @ Mon 1st February 2010, 9:27am) *

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


If you think David Shankbone would have scooped a story on Wikipedia Review, then waited a couple of days to rehash it on his own blog property, then you don't know David very well. If Tarantino is Shankbone, then it would have been the other way around.

You're embarrassing yourself, Carbuncle, as badly as or worse than I did last night with my "1929 minus 1912" subtraction problem.

My embarrassment is that people have no idea when I'm making a joke. From now on, even if I think something is too incredible for anyone to take seriously, I will be more careful.
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QUOTE(carbuncle @ Wed 3rd February 2010, 5:35pm) *

My embarrassment is that people have no idea when I'm making a joke. From now on, even if I think something is too incredible for anyone to take seriously, I will be more careful.


I thought you were funny, DC.

I think the next item I'll put in my blog "Strange realms of the spirit" is how the novelist John Reed used various identities to manipulate Wikipedia and book review sites.
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tarantino   Stefan de Rothschild   Fri 29th January 2010, 6:58pm
Jon Awbrey   Better Off TED Jon :wacko:   Fri 29th January 2010, 7:56pm
One   How whimsical; in January 2010, the scion of a her...   Fri 29th January 2010, 8:00pm
tarantino   How whimsical; in January 2010, the scion of a he...   Fri 29th January 2010, 10:41pm
A Horse With No Name   He's also blogged there as Stefan Roberts an...   Fri 29th January 2010, 11:14pm
the fieryangel   [quote name='tarantino' post='218691' date='Fri 2...   Fri 29th January 2010, 11:46pm
Milton Roe   A friend of mine is a nurse who practices in and ...   Sat 30th January 2010, 12:05am
CharlotteWebb   I hate to tell you this, but the average person d...   Sat 30th January 2010, 12:27am
Milton Roe   I hate to tell you this, but the average person ...   Sat 30th January 2010, 2:37am
CharlotteWebb   I have to admit you do remind me of one other ass...   Sat 30th January 2010, 10:23am
Milton Roe   I have to admit you do remind me of one other as...   Sat 30th January 2010, 8:25pm
A Horse With No Name   A friend of mine is a nurse who practices in and ...   Sat 30th January 2010, 12:10am
the fieryangel   A friend of mine is a nurse who practices in and...   Sat 30th January 2010, 12:35pm
Milton Roe   My point was that these Rothchild people are norm...   Sat 30th January 2010, 8:04pm
Trick cyclist   Just forget about the [b]Rothchilds and everythin...   Sat 30th January 2010, 12:38pm
the fieryangel   Just forget about the [b]Rothchilds and everythi...   Sat 30th January 2010, 12:55pm
Trick cyclist   Here for example is a typical French maid on Comm...   Sun 31st January 2010, 5:36pm
the fieryangel   [quote name='Trick cyclist' post='218758' date='S...   Sun 31st January 2010, 5:45pm
carbuncle   He's also blogged there as Stefan Roberts and ...   Mon 1st February 2010, 10:54pm
A Horse With No Name   Hmmm, Tarantino mentions alerting Valleywag and s...   Tue 2nd February 2010, 12:31am
The Adversary   <snip> His current websites that are being ...   Sat 30th January 2010, 2:50am
tarantino   [quote name='tarantino' post='218659' date='Fri 2...   Sat 30th January 2010, 4:05am
EricBarbour   This is too damn bizarre. Why in hell would anyo...   Sat 30th January 2010, 6:05am
CharlotteWebb   This is too damn bizarre. Why in hell would any...   Sat 30th January 2010, 9:55am
tarantino   This is too damn bizarre. Why in hell would any...   Sat 30th January 2010, 9:58pm
MZMcBride   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Roberts]...   Sun 31st January 2010, 12:13am
tarantino   [quote name='tarantino' post='218814' date='Sat 3...   Sun 31st January 2010, 1:02am
Milton Roe   [quote name='MZMcBride' post='218832' date='Sun 3...   Sun 31st January 2010, 4:35am
Milton Roe   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Roberts...   Sun 31st January 2010, 5:03am
the fieryangel   [quote name='MZMcBride' post='218832' date='Sat 3...   Sun 31st January 2010, 12:33pm
tarantino   [quote name='Milton Roe' post='218876' date='Sun ...   Sun 31st January 2010, 5:58pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='Milton Roe' post='218876' date='Sun ...   Sun 31st January 2010, 7:24pm
MZMcBride   [quote name='the fieryangel' post='218892' date='...   Sun 31st January 2010, 9:38pm
the fieryangel   I was talking to some French friends tonight about...   Sun 31st January 2010, 9:49pm
Milton Roe   I was talking to some French friends tonight abou...   Mon 1st February 2010, 2:43am
Trick cyclist   How about this guy, born in 1949? Of course, he ...   Mon 1st February 2010, 12:17pm
the fieryangel   [quote name='Milton Roe' post='218975' date='Mon ...   Mon 1st February 2010, 2:01pm
Trick cyclist   This guy is Stefan Rothschild. The other guy is ...   Mon 1st February 2010, 10:36pm
the fieryangel   [quote name='the fieryangel' post='219044' date='...   Mon 1st February 2010, 10:52pm
A Horse With No Name   Sweden is another country. They do things differ...   Mon 1st February 2010, 2:13pm
Milton Roe   This elaborate hoax was set up with several artic...   Sat 30th January 2010, 10:05pm
the fieryangel   [quote name='tarantino' post='218659' date='Fri 2...   Sat 30th January 2010, 10:54pm
CharlotteWebb   He's got a facebook account as well : http://...   Sat 30th January 2010, 10:59pm
the fieryangel   [quote name='the fieryangel' post='218822' date='...   Sat 30th January 2010, 11:08pm
A Horse With No Name   More proof that Tarantino is actually David Shank...   Mon 1st February 2010, 2:46pm
the fieryangel   [quote name='carbuncle' post='219051' date='Mon 1...   Mon 1st February 2010, 5:07pm
the fieryangel   A comment about Davos and Master de Rothschild on ...   Mon 1st February 2010, 5:24pm
the fieryangel   Valleywag breaks the story! And both Shanker...   Mon 1st February 2010, 10:13pm
the fieryangel   [url=http://gawker.com/5461647/how-a-layabout-use...   Mon 1st February 2010, 10:32pm
Milton Roe   More proof that Tarantino is actually David Shank...   Tue 2nd February 2010, 12:50am
carbuncle   At risk of being stupidly blunt in the middle of ...   Tue 2nd February 2010, 4:12am
the fieryangel   Off of the Valleywag comments : So, Wikipedia ...   Tue 2nd February 2010, 11:14am
Milton Roe   (PS: my favorite comment off of Valleywag: B...   Tue 2nd February 2010, 9:37pm
the fieryangel   Some analysis of this via a blog : I've al...   Wed 3rd February 2010, 9:26am
tarantino   Stefan Roberts is back with a sequel. This time hi...   Tue 3rd August 2010, 9:23pm
the fieryangel   [url=http://www.webcitation.org/5n9XtOlZj]Stefan ...   Wed 4th August 2010, 7:53am


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