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− | '''Johann Hari and David Rose''' is actually the same person only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari Johann Hari] is his name in a real life and David Rose is the name he used on [[Wikipedia]].<ref name=Hari1>{{cite web |url=http://www.quietmountainessays.org/Gormglaith.html |title=Johann Hari: A personal apology |author= Johann Hari|authorlink= |coauthors= |date= 2011|format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-personal-apology-2354679.html|quote= I started to notice some things I didn’t like in the Wikipedia entry about me, so I took them out. To do that, I created a user-name that wasn’t my own. Using that user-name, I continued to edit my own Wikipedia entry and some other people’s too. I took out nasty passages about people I admire – like Polly Toynbee, George Monbiot, Deborah Orr and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. I factually corrected some other entries about other people. But in a few instances, I edited the entries of people I had clashed with in ways that were juvenile or malicious: I called one of them anti-Semitic and homophobic, and the other a drunk.|accessdate=2011-09-18}}</ref> To be exact his user name on Wikipedia was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_r_from_meth_productions David r from meth productions].Johann Hari first edited Wikipedia as IP, and then in October of 2006 he made an account with the user name "David r from meth productions". A look at his [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20061023221415&limit=500&target=David+r+from+meth+productions contributions] shows that the main interest of Johann Hari in editing Wikipedia was... well, Johann Hari himself. | + | '''Johann Hari and David Rose''' is actually the same person only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari Johann Hari] is his name in a real life and David Rose is the name he used on [[Wikipedia]].<ref name=Hari1>{{cite web |url=http://www.quietmountainessays.org/Gormglaith.html |title=Johann Hari: A personal apology |author= Johann Hari|authorlink= |coauthors= |date= 2011|format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-personal-apology-2354679.html|quote= I started to notice some things I didn’t like in the Wikipedia entry about me, so I took them out. To do that, I created a user-name that wasn’t my own. Using that user-name, I continued to edit my own Wikipedia entry and some other people’s too. I took out nasty passages about people I admire – like Polly Toynbee, George Monbiot, Deborah Orr and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. I factually corrected some other entries about other people. But in a few instances, I edited the entries of people I had clashed with in ways that were juvenile or malicious: I called one of them anti-Semitic and homophobic, and the other a drunk.|accessdate=2011-09-18}}</ref> To be exact his user name on Wikipedia was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_r_from_meth_productions David r from meth productions]. |
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| + | Johann Hari first edited Wikipedia as IP, and then in October of 2006 he made an account with the user name "David r from meth productions". A look at his [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20061023221415&limit=500&target=David+r+from+meth+productions contributions] shows that the main interest of Johann Hari in editing Wikipedia was... well, Johann Hari himself. |
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| In 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:David_r_from_meth_productions#Johann_Hari_image David r from meth productions aka Johann Hari was asked to clear copyright issues for the image of Johann Hari].In his response David r from meth productions made a few spelling errors that of course Johann Hari would never have, and promised to call Johann Hari aka David r from meth productions: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADavid_r_from_meth_productions&action=historysubmit&diff=203523032&oldid=203522827 "''I'll call him in a minute and get him to e-mail straight awya (sic) if he can; I think he might be out of the coutnry (sic) but I'm not sure and he has an i-phone anyway so should be able to.David r from meth productions 14:24, 5 April 2008 (UTC)''"]. | | In 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:David_r_from_meth_productions#Johann_Hari_image David r from meth productions aka Johann Hari was asked to clear copyright issues for the image of Johann Hari].In his response David r from meth productions made a few spelling errors that of course Johann Hari would never have, and promised to call Johann Hari aka David r from meth productions: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADavid_r_from_meth_productions&action=historysubmit&diff=203523032&oldid=203522827 "''I'll call him in a minute and get him to e-mail straight awya (sic) if he can; I think he might be out of the coutnry (sic) but I'm not sure and he has an i-phone anyway so should be able to.David r from meth productions 14:24, 5 April 2008 (UTC)''"]. |