Read, Brock (2007年3月2日). “Essjay, the Ersatz Academic”. The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1909. "the incident is clearly damaging to Wikipedia's credibility—especially with professors who will now note that one of the site's most visible academics has turned out to be a fraud."
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Larry Sanger (2007年3月5日). “One last, brief comment on the Essjay scandal”. Citizendium Blog. 2007年10月1日閲覧。. "Only after these sad facts were publicly exposed, only after there was a hue and cry, did Jimmy Wales decide to ask for Essjay’s resignation."
MacLeod, Donald (2007年3月7日). “Students marked on writing in Wikipedia”. The Guardian. 2007年3月18日閲覧。. "The ethos of Wikipedia is that anyone can contribute, regardless of status… What's relevant is their knowledge as judged by other readers, not whether they are professors or not – and the fact the student [Essjay] was exposed shows it works."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/06/business/wiki.php : "Over time, Wikipedia users said, Essjay did less editing and writing and spent more time ensuring that the encyclopedia was as free as possible of vandalism and drawn-out editing fights."
Orlowski, Andrew (2007年3月6日). “Farewell, Wikipedia?”. Music and Media. The Register. 2007年3月18日閲覧。
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Doran, James (2007年3月6日). “Wikipedia chief promises change after ‘expert’ exposed as fraud”. Tech & Web. The Times. 2007年3月18日閲覧。. “Mr. Ryan [sic] was a friend, and still is a friend. He is a young man, and he has offered me a heartfelt personal apology, which I have accepted. I hope the world will let him go in peace to build an honorable life and reputation.”
“User:Essjay/Letter”. WebCite. 2007年11月17日閲覧。. "I am an administrator of the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia. I am also a tenured professor of theology; feel free to have a look at my Wikipedia userpage (linked below) to gain an idea of my background and credentials."
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Jimmy Wales (2007年10月17日). “ArbCom”. WikiEN-l. 2007年10月23日閲覧。
Wales, Jimmy (2007-03-19), “Making amends”, The New Yorker: pp. 24, http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-March/065484.html. "I am writing to apologize to The New Yorker and Stacy Schiff, and to give some follow-up concerning Ryan Jordan (Editors' Note, March 5). When I last spoke to The New Yorker about the fact that a prominent Wikipedia community member had lied about his credentials, I misjudged the issue. It was not O.K. for Mr. Jordan, or Essjay, to lie to a reporter, even to protect his identity."
Jimmy Wales (2007年3月3日). “EssJay situation”. WikiEN-l. 2007年10月1日閲覧。. "that EssJay used his false credentials in content disputes" on Wikipedia.
“Profiles do not mesh...”. Essjay Wikipedia talk page (2007年2月2日). 2007年7月26日閲覧。. "There are a number of trolls, stalkers, and psychopaths who wander around Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects looking for people to harass, stalk, and otherwise ruin the lives of (several have been arrested over their activities here)...You will eventually say something that will lead back to you, and the stalkers will find it...I decided to be myself, to never hide my personality, to always be who I am, but to utilize disinformation with regard to what I consider unimportant details: age, location, occupation, etc..."
“Talk:Imprimatur”. Wikipedia (2005年4月12日). 2007年8月28日閲覧。. "This is a text I often require for my students, and I would hang my own Ph.D. on it’s [sic] credibility."
Keen, Andrew (2007年3月7日). “Laughter and forgetting on Wikipedia”. ZDNet. 2007年3月13日閲覧。. "…I *am* sorry if anyone in the Wikipedia community has been hurt by my decision to use disinformation to protect myself. I'm not sorry that I protected myself; I believed, and continue to believe, that I was right to protect myself, in light of the problems encountered on the internet in these trying times. I have spoken to all of my close friends here about this, and have heard resoundingly that they understand my position, and they support me. Jimbo and many others in Wikipedia's hierarchy have made thier [sic] support known as well…"
