{"id":850,"date":"2008-03-12T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2008-03-12T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:55:00","slug":"can-you-trust-wikipedia-or-jimmy-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/03\/can-you-trust-wikipedia-or-jimmy-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you trust Wikipedia &#8211; or Jimmy Wales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span>h yes, the battles are so bitter because the stakes are so low. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wikipedia<\/span> uber-ed <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jimmy Wales<\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7291382.stm\">stands accused of pocketing US$5k<\/a> for cleaning up a Wikipedia entry on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merkey\">this guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interested?<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have kids of your own, you can get the whole \u201che said\/she said\u201d thing by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/foundation-l\/2008-March\/039545.html\">following the thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/foundation-l\/2008-March\/039563.html\">Toys quickly bid farewell to pram<\/a>: <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jimmy Wales wrote:<br \/>> Of course I would never offer, nor accept any offer, whereby a donation<br \/>> would buy someone special editorial treatment in the encyclopedia.  I do<br \/>> routinely assist people with WP:BLP issues, and I do courtesies for many<br \/>> people.  Donations have no bearing on that at all.<br \/>><br \/>> NPOV is non-negotiable.<\/p>\n<p>Alright Mr Wales,<\/p>\n<p>Since you have decided to publicly respond and lie about it (not that you<br \/>have not been caught lying to the public before).<\/p>\n<p>I just sent **ALL** of the emails to the associated press exposing yet<br \/>more of your lies and deceit.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day.<\/p>\n<p>:-)<\/p>\n<p>Jeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Internet &#8211; creating communities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah yes, the battles are so bitter because the stakes are so low. Wikipedia uber-ed Jimmy Wales stands accused of pocketing US$5k for cleaning up a Wikipedia entry on this guy. Interested? If you don\u2019t have kids of your own, you can get the whole \u201che said\/she said\u201d thing by following the thread. Toys quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}