Pirate Story Hoax – Michael Feldstein’s Blog
Michael wrote a cool blog post about a pirate hoax featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is Michael’s post:
http://mfeldstein.com/the-pirate-hoax/.
The CHE story is like a rerun – a history professor has his students put up a fake Wikipedia page and then try to spam the world with enough incoming links to the point where it has enough credibility to mislead some main-stream folks. At that point the history professor stops the “experiment” and writes an article about how “shocking” this is. Yawn!
Michael rightly characterizes this as “vandalism” as it goes against everything Wikipedia stands for and violates several of Wikipedia policies (which these students and their professor agreed to when they joined Wikipedia).
It is a great post – please read it. My response is below.
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