Daniel Brandt
Daniel Brandt is best known for operating the now-offline site "Wikipedia Watch" (http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/). His site revealed the identities of many Wikipedians.[1]
Wikipedia biography deletion wheel-war and arbitration case
Brandt's article on Wikipedia was repeatedly deleted and restored, which eventually led to an arbitration case before the Arbitration Committee;[2] the "highest tier" of the administrator-run site.[3] The Arbitration Committee claims that their role on Wikipedia is to "impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve."[4] this practice on Wikipedia is known as "wheel-warring", and is "looked down" upon by the Wikipedia community.[5]
Thrice in October 2005, Brandt's article was deleted for notability reasons;[6] this was not part of the conflict.[2]
References
- ↑ Wikipedia Watch
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wikipedia Arbitration case
- ↑ Kohs, Gregory. "Wikipedia Arbitration Committee member resigns under plagiarism cloud", Examiner.com, 1 November 2010
- ↑ Wikipedia Arbitration Committee page
- ↑ Wikipedia administrator policy
- ↑ Daniel Brandt article deletion log
External links
- encyclopediadramatica.se/Daniel_Brandt/Wikipedia - Archive of WP entry. (Warning: site has ads and popups and other pages that are not family-friendly)
