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i wonder if the lesson of this kinda peculiar little affair has more to do with the unintended consequences of trying to stop infotainment on this order from being posted to a space like wikipedia than anything about wikipedia proper. i mean, there's a whole lot more attention directed at the in itself pretty uninteresting matter of ron livingstone's sexual preferences than there would be had he not tried to sue to get the name(s) of the writer(s) of the relevant infotainment, presumably so he could either stop (restraining order of some kind) or sue them.
typically, wikipedia is not a bad information source--i know that the skeeves some people out because it is a collectively edited affair, which for some reason is assumed to undercut reliability, as if publishing something under your own individual name guarantees the infotainment (trust me, it doesn't necessarily)...typically, the check against that in an academic context anyway is peer review, which you'd think wikipedia has covered.
this sort of infotainment circulates all over the place, just as often (it seems) floated by press agents as by "malicious" Others.
so it's hardly a matter of anything particular to wikipedia.
but yeah, if this sort of infotainment were to appear about me, after this, i'd probably opt for pretending it wasn't there.
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