Making an entry
This week’s column in the New Statesman picks up on the damning indictment of my journalist prowess that has since disappeared from my Wikipedia entry:
Read the rest here.
However, as Nick Moreau has kindly pointed out, I read the edit history wrong, and accused Rajah of being behind the judgement, when in fact it came from an anonymous IP address in London. My deepest apologies to Rajah.
I will now take the advice of the Wikipedian who so kindly cleaned up my entry and “write my column on something interesting please, not trivial stuff like this“.
“It was a crushing verdict: ‘Becky Hogge is a journalist of no particular fame or distinction.’ My ultimate judge was Rajah, an expert on many things, including Cuban judo champions, the Irish indie-pop band The Thrills and the various staff writers and bit-part actors in Seinfeld. My jury was made up of the hundreds of Wikipedians who police entries to the online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit.
”It all started with a little joke here in these pages…”
Read the rest here.
However, as Nick Moreau has kindly pointed out, I read the edit history wrong, and accused Rajah of being behind the judgement, when in fact it came from an anonymous IP address in London. My deepest apologies to Rajah.
I will now take the advice of the Wikipedian who so kindly cleaned up my entry and “write my column on something interesting please, not trivial stuff like this“.
