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Academic Credentials and Wikiality
An anonymous reader writes "A prominent Wikipedia administrator and Wikia employee has been caught lying to the media and 'other' professors about his academic credentials. Wikipedia's Essjay has been representing himself as 'a tenured professor of theology at a private university in the eastern United States; I teach both undergraduate and graduate theology. My Academic Degrees: Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies (B.A.), Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.), Doctorate of Philosophy in Theology (Ph.D.), Doctorate in Canon Law (JCD).' His real identity came to light after Wikia offered him a job: It turns out that he is really 24 years old with no degree living in Louisville, KY. Wikipedia's co-founder, Jimbo Wales, says 'I regard it as a pseudonym and I don't really have a problem with it.' How will this affect Wikipedia's already shaky reputation with the academic world?"
Maybe they will open a Politics section like Slashdot did before it lost all reputation in the nerd world.
its already shaky at best!
In soviet slashdot, politics section YOU!!
Surely Shawn has the right to decide who does and who doesn't supply him with oral pleasure? I have trouble seeing where my opinion or yours comes into it.
Why does this kind of attack on the reputation of persons or organizations seem to be EVERYWHERE in our lives?
They attack indivisuals, they attack Wikimedia, they attack the opensource community, they attack charity organizations, they attack the history of Jesus's life, they attack religious believes, and they attack your past -- they attack everything!!!
Don't they ever get bored of it? Why do they insist on making something bad instead of making something good? Why do they HAVE to attack people?
I'm beginning to doubt whether there's a point in questioning some poeple's point of view while still keeping a faint hope that they can be reasonable -- as if ATTACKING is the only hopeful way of life.