[WikiEN-l] David Hager is listed as convicted rapist

Sun Dec 4 14:39:53 UTC 2005

On 12/1/05, poore5 at adelphia.net <poore5 at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Advice please.
>
> During a bout of Insomnia-Induced Insanity, I did a major expansion of the article about David Hager. Hager is the controversial fellow that Bush appointed to the FDA committee on Reproductive Health Drugs. (Self-disclosure: We both live in central Kentucky and our paths crossed through our professions from mid 80's - mid 90's.) Being a controversial figure, I was prepared to deal with POV crap. However, I never thought anyone would put him on a list of convicted rapists. Of course, I immediately took his name off the list. He was on the list for less than five hours, from Dec. 1 00:58 to 05:19. This brings up several issues.
>
> 1. Was this information spread to other web sites like Answers.com? Who do I ask to find out?
>

That is quite a difficult question to answer. For the most part no
since I doubt it will have been included in a datebase dump however
there are some sites that apear to pick up our content live

> 2. Do we all agree that this is a BIG problem. Can you imagine what would happen if another major media source published Hager's name on a list of convicted rapists?
>

There are bigger problems but yes it is a big problem

> 2. How do I (hopefully, we) stop this unregistered user (or any other) from doing this again? Being very, very generous, I will assume this was an isolated incidence of poor judgment. This doesn't change the fact that this libelous misinformation appeared in OUR encyclopedia.
>

We can't.

>  3. I can't unring this bell. The Wikipedia article is listed 6 in an Yahoo search of the words David Hager. Being a registered user, I will be associated with this article forever. While, an unregistered user can damage Wikipedia, Hager, and me.
>
> Immediate solution? Ask everyone here to put his name on your watch list.
> Long term solution?…….
>
> SP AKA FloNight

No long term solution currently exists.

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geni