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Wikipedia's Wales Reverses Decision on Problem Admin

ToiletDuck writes "Wikipedia co-founder Jimbo Wales appears to have changed his mind concerning Essjay, the administrator who was caught lying about his academic credentials. Wales issued a statement today on his User Talk page requesting that EssJay voluntarily step down. Wales defended his earlier comment about EssJay, claiming 'I only learned this morning that EssJay used his false credentials in content disputes ... I want to make it perfectly clear that my past support of EssJay in this matter was fully based on a lack of knowledge about what has been going on.' Wales did not comment on whether EssJay would continue to serve in his paid position at Wikia, the for-profit cousin of Wikipedia."

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  1. That's the beauty of Wikipedia by Nymz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check out Hillary Clinton's padded educational credentials. (for the last 2 years)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillary_ Rodham_Clinton&diff=18494301&oldid=18493966

    Once exposed (yesterday),
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/page/3/

    the author updated his own profile, 'best known for his work on the Hillary Rodham Clinton article'.........indeed.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LukeTH

  2. Re:Tortured prose by Brandybuck · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    As a libertarian, I can attest to the massive damage the objectivists have done to the movement. It's a philosophy based on a cheap scifi novel, a cult centered around the personality of a woman who railed against cults of personality, and an irrational belief that the universe can be explained in one trite axiom. It's an individualist groupthink circle jerk. It's Scientology without bad Hollywood actors. I'll gladly trade them all in for a handful of stoned anarcho-capitalists.

    "Nathaniel! Bring me another gin and tonic!"

    --
    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
  3. Re:We need more info from Jimmy by Blu+Aardvark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i lol'd

  4. I am Essjay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am posting this from behind Tor due to a concern for my life. The truth is that I am a member of the Gay Nigger Assocation of America. This is both a religion and a lifestyle for me, and I was working my way up to the top of Wikipedia as a sleeper agent to be used in a time of need.

    My role for the GNAA was to rig the structure of Wikipedia like a chain of dominoes, so that when the time was right our leader could push over the first one of sorts, in whichever form it might take, merely by erecting his black member; we would replace every article with an icon, and make national news in the process.

    I tell all of you this as my failure has re-inspired my belief in god, and in the idea that one day that white men such as many of us might not all end up as dead, uprooted links in the ultimate evolution of the human race. Thank you and god bless.