everyone's probably read it already but here it is http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine...gewanted=1&_r=2

ED is mentioned along with Gracenotes , swatjester, and yes your favorite and mine, slimvirgin.

Actually, I missed that one. Thanks for the catch.

Heh. After all of the stuff about Grace Note not wanting his identity known, they've released it on the New York times, complete with a photo.

16 huh?

There is a rough philosophical divide among admins between “deletionists” and “inclusionists,” and Rosenthal, even though he has never actually met anyone from Wikipedia outside the office staff in St. Petersburg, is on the site so often that he has a pretty good idea who’s who. He associates certain user names with certain political biases, and he recalls an online dustup with someone called Slimvirgin over whether the Animal Liberation Front was a terrorist organization. Personalities can become so pronounced in these debates that some even achieve fame of a sort on snarky Wikipedia anti-fansites like Encyclopedia Dramatica, where Slimvirgin has been thoroughly pilloried. “It’s disgusting on one level,” Rosenthal said, “but it’s also funny how the encyclopedia has gotten to be more about the community behind it. And like any community, it has its drama. For people that don’t understand it and don’t have an inclination to get involved in it, it’s pretty daunting.”

Source. Jonathan Dee (01 Jul 2007), "All the News That’s Fit to Print Out", New York Times Magazine, p. 5.

Heh. After all of the stuff about Grace Note not wanting his identity known, they've released it on the New York times, complete with a photo.

16 huh?

I had to go barf before I finished the article, and haven't got back to it yet, but I was wondering, did the reporter ever get around to talking to anyone who wasn't a member of the cult in question?

Nope. Why don't you act as if the NYTimes did interview you, Jonny, and write that section for us...