07 March 2007

Fake professor in Wikipedia storm

"Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.

The editor, known as Essjay, had described himself as a professor of religion at a private university.

But he was in fact Ryan Jordan, 24, a college student from Kentucky who used texts such as Catholicism for Dummies to help him work.

He has retired from the site and his authority to edit has been cancelled."

Click on the link below for the full article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6423659.stm

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