- The
Essjay controversy was an
incident in
which Ryan Jordan, a
Wikipedia editor who went by the
username "
Essjay",
falsely presented himself as a university...
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Wikipedia administrator using the
pseudonym Essjay, who
described himself as a
tenured professor of theology.
Essjay's Wikipedia user page, now removed, said...
-
March 2007,
Wikipedia was
again the
subject of
media attention with the
Essjay controversy,
which involved a
prominent English Wikipedia editor and administrator...
- re****tion for reliability.
Engadget likened the
Zhemao hoaxes to the 2007
Essjay controversy, in
which a
Wikipedia editor similarly faked his
stated expertise...
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Industry Freight transport Founded 1907 in Buffalo, New York
Headquarters 500
Essjay Road Williamsville, New York 14221
Parent RAND
Logistics Inc.
Website http://www...
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Controversies Alan
MacMasters hoax
Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax Edit wars
Essjay controversy Henryk Batuta hoax Jar'Edo Wens hoax
Seigenthaler biography...
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decisions imposed by the committee. In 2007, an
arbitrator using the
username Essjay resigned from the
committee after it was
found he had made
false claims...
- the world.
Wikipedia continued to
garner visibility in the
press – the
Essjay controversy broke out when a
prominent member of
Wikipedia was
found to...
- and how
these projects affect the
African continent. The
Seigenthaler and
Essjay incidents caused criticism of Wikipedia's
reliability and
usefulness as...
- to
brief accounts of
infamous events in Wikipedia's
history such as the
Essjay controversy and the
Seigenthaler incident. Lih
describes the importance...
