http://tempero.co.uk/08/actor-ron-livingstone-sues-wikipedia/ everything in modertation Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:26:12 +0100 hourly 1 http://tempero.co.uk/08/actor-ron-livingstone-sues-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-14 temperouk Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:38:03 +0000 http://tempero.co.uk/?p=695#comment-14 Thanks for picking up on the typo (fixed!) <br>Your expanded blog post certainly makes for fascinating reading. Thanks for picking up on the typo (fixed!)
Your expanded blog post certainly makes for fascinating reading.

]]> http://tempero.co.uk/08/actor-ron-livingstone-sues-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Somey Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:09:14 +0000 http://tempero.co.uk/?p=695#comment-13 It's appropriate that you'd have a blog entry on this (and there's no "e" at the end of Livingston's name, btw), because this entire episode represents a complete failure of moderation on the part of Wikipedia, a site with nearly 2,000 administrators all over the world, as well as Facebook and at least a dozen other public forums and blogs. The Wikipedia Review (of which I myself am a moderator) smelled a rat almost immediately and actually determined the perpetrator of this hoax within just two days - he wasn't really doing all that much to conceal himself. (Hint: There is no such person as "Lee Dennison.") <a href="http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20091211/its-the-casting-director-lee-dennison-story/" rel="nofollow">The blog entry</a> makes for interesting reading, and <a href="http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=27677" rel="nofollow">the 16-page forum thread</a> offers much more detail. It's appropriate that you'd have a blog entry on this (and there's no “e” at the end of Livingston's name, btw), because this entire episode represents a complete failure of moderation on the part of Wikipedia, a site with nearly 2,000 administrators all over the world, as well as Facebook and at least a dozen other public forums and blogs. The Wikipedia Review (of which I myself am a moderator) smelled a rat almost immediately and actually determined the perpetrator of this hoax within just two days – he wasn't really doing all that much to conceal himself. (Hint: There is no such person as “Lee Dennison.”) The blog entry makes for interesting reading, and the 16-page forum thread offers much more detail.

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