"Are you sure that's a real god?"
March 25, 2015 9:42 PM Subscribe
Recently a hoax article was discovered in a Wikipedia article that had survived for almost ten years. In classic "citogenesis" fashion, it was being repeated as "fact" on other websites. It was written up on critic's site Wikipediocracy. Which resulted in news media attention from all over the world.
Oddly enough, it was hardly discussed at all on Wikipedia itself. They simply added it to their ever-growing list of hoaxes. However, one of the journalists who wrote about it found himself being attacked on Twitter by a "Liam Wyatt", who turned out to be a longtime Wikipedia insider. Still no idea who "Jared Owens" really is, or was.
Oddly enough, it was hardly discussed at all on Wikipedia itself. They simply added it to their ever-growing list of hoaxes. However, one of the journalists who wrote about it found himself being attacked on Twitter by a "Liam Wyatt", who turned out to be a longtime Wikipedia insider. Still no idea who "Jared Owens" really is, or was.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems to have some serious framing problems, sorry. -- restless_nomad
Looks like you didn't read your own link, since you frame Wikipedia as ignoring the subject when the same dude you called out shared a link to Wikipedia's post about it.
What's with the framing of him as a "Wikipedia insider," too?
This post is a mess.
posted by flatluigi at 10:21 PM on March 25, 2015
What's with the framing of him as a "Wikipedia insider," too?
This post is a mess.
posted by flatluigi at 10:21 PM on March 25, 2015
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