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Adrian Chen and Wikipedia[edit]

Adrian Chen wrote many articles about Wikipedia.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] This and the fact that he so often purposefully gets personally involved with internet trolls for his journalism ensures that he's probably monitoring, if not actively editing, this page. 多恩特達庫斯米布羅 (talk) 00:20, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chen is a blogger, not a journalist. His bio at Gawker notes no training in journalism. He is notable only for stirring people up in much the same way that paparazzi are, and they don't get their own Wikipedia pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.81.182.116 (talk) 00:40, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notability[edit]

How is this a page? Not a notable person. Not worthy of an encyclopedia article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.76.67.233 (talk) 21:22, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How is this a page? The person is not worthy of an encyclopedia article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.76.67.233 (talk) 21:21, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

He's a writer mentioned in a lot of notable sources, single-handedly caused the rift between Reddit and Gawker Media. Not a WP:ONEEVENT figure.--The lorax (talk) 22:13, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

^^ He doesn't reveal how he got the information in question, but it was via blackmail and other means. And they gave him an award for it. The dude defines media sensationalist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.172.122.204 (talk) 23:47, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Ethnicity[edit]

Yes, this is the place to discuss and analyse the sources. Let's not edit war on the BLP itself. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 13:07, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A leap too large[edit]

In October 2012, Chen exposed the real name and details of Violentacrez (a moderator of several Reddit Jailbait communities), a Texas Internet developer, who was subsequently fired from his job.
This led to all links to Gawker being temporarily banned from Reddit.

What did this temporary ban purport to accomplish? Why was it temporary? Was there any other notable fall out from this brief bun fight? — MaxEnt 21:12, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography[edit]

I have started a Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 10:25, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

While I would prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules referred to above, the Wikipedia Manual of Style at WP:MOS requires "title case". I will make changes accordingly. Sunwin1960 (talk) 10:27, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]