On 12/1/05, poore5(a)adelphia.net <poore5(a)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