Guy "JzG" Chapman tweeted:
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@jimmy_wales Stifle and I got dishonourable mentions in Michael Winner's column in the Sunday Times this week :-(
(Note that "jwales" changed his Twitter name to "jimmy_wales".)
The Sunday Times column (available with free registration) says:
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•" Wikipedia has recorded my death. Twice. The second time it was
right. It’s a grotesque organisation. Idiots galore can add nonsense
to any biography, true or false. Wikipedia just publishes it.
Newspapers silly enough to rely on it repeat it.
To sue, you have to find the person who originated the inaccuracy. We
had the site remove the libellous allegation that I had a gastric band
fitted, when my diet book shows how brilliantly I dieted and kept the
weight off. When we objected, a Wikipedia rep, Joe Daly, complained
that we wrote to him in capital letters. That’s a joke, innit? His
colleagues are publishing rubbish and he’s concerned with typography.
Recently, a 10th-rate comedian, Dom Joly, proudly boasted in a
national newspaper that he’d been “tweaking†my Wikipedia biography.
He’d added a host of untruths to amuse himself. Get a life, Dom.
We wrote once more, pointing out 10 further inaccuracies. Another
Wikipedia genius, Guy Chapman, also complained we’d written in capital
letters. A famous philosopher said, “Believe nothing of what you hear
and absolutely nothing of what you see.†He was surely referring to
Wikipedia. "
Jimbo responds with his usual wit (and love for the admin who helped him sanitize Rachel Marsden's biography, immediately pre-Doubletree Hotel meet-up) by tweeting back:
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@chapmancentral Having reviewed the entire situation carefully, I have awarded you a Barnstar!
I'm having flashbacks to high school and the Science Honor Society.
