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[quote name="Fullofkittens"]I suppose that if he really doesn't give a shit if the entire world of games journalism thinks he's a dickhead* - which is certainly a possibility, since it's clear that those who are <i>interested in building an encyclopedia</i> do not consider the gaming press to be notable - then all of this blew right over him and he successfully trolled us all. That's one way to look at it. However: if he really is <i>interested in building an encyclopedia</i>, he did some harm to wikipedia's reputation. I hope he recognizes that. I personally had never really given much thought to what goes on behind the scenes there. Now I know that FACT: the information there is being filtered through the prejudices of a bunch of douchey shut-ins with axes to grind and FACT: it takes an army of grownups with real jobs to undo the damage done by one of their greasy cheez-flavored mouseclicks. One would presume that there would be a lot of overlap between the geeks that read gaming sites and the geeks that would like to improve the quality of wikipedia. After this week I think there's a lot of people in the first set that will have lost any interest in interacting with the second set. Some of those wiki admins (at the end, anyway) seemed like basically reasonable people... presumably Schumin's rep has been hurt with those folks too. And I do believe that rep in that community is important to Ben. *a dickhead with scary red wrinkles on it[/quote]