Comments on: Microsoft Employee Vandalizes Wikipedia TechCrunch Article

By: Elijah Shewchuk

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:38:31 +0000

Wikipedia used to be fun because everyone could put their own thoughts in, now it is a dictatorship run by 40 year old virgins living in their mom’s basement.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:36:25 +0000

Wikipedia is annoying you can’t change anything because of overzealous editors who have no life.

By: Reinier Post

Reinier Post — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:14:20 +0000

Whoops, looks like I missed the statement in Rick Jeliffe’s user profile you so kindly link to, where he says he has already been paid. My apologies for the disinformation.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:44:12 +0000

Reinier Post,

If I can respectfully disagree, Jeliffe was a Wikipedian, did accept payment from Microsoft, and did attempt to change Microsoft-related Wikipedia articles. I have added complete proof for all of this to the article above.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify these points.

Jon

By: Reinier Post

Reinier Post — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:56:07 +0000

Your opening shot is ridiculous. Rick Jeliffe is not “a Wikipedian”, whatever that may be; Microsoft did not pay him (although a Microsoft employee did make him an offer to do so); and he was not asked to post favorable material, but *unbiased* material.

So the rest of what you write is just hot air, as far as I’m concerned.

A reader.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:25:39 +0000

Thank you Cruella!

I will be lurking with great interest. Most likely I will not participate as I am not experienced in these matters. But I may pipe in if I feel I can be useful. Thank you for posting that link,

Jon

By: Cruella

Cruella — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:42:53 +0000

Incidentally, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/TechCrunch for the mediation case.

By: Cruella

Cruella — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:17:48 +0000

Ha ha! Great list. I think Michael Arrington ought to feel honored to be the target of one of the 5 most famous blogger temper tantrums. I’m not on the list of five most famous anythings.

Jon, it isn’t my procedure — if anybody owns Wikipedia it’s for sure not me. But I do admire the site and think most of the criticism is misplaced. There are far more germane things to critique than it’s susceptibility to vandalism or schoolkids citing it inappropriately, the two things everyone writes about.

I’m “User:Wikidemo” there. I’ll send a message to your user page there.

By: 10 Great Blogger Temper Tantrums « ValueWiki Blog

10 Great Blogger Temper Tantrums « ValueWiki Blog — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:10:24 +0000

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