Wikipedia, Byrne victim

[sigma7]

Wow. It's hard to see how John Byrne could've possibly been laden with a reputation of being uncooperative.

Poor John Byrne. If you listen to him, he’s the most misunderstood person in comics. Of course, if you listen to him, he’s reasonable and never gets into snitty arguments and fights with anyone. The latest target of his misguided ire is his entry on Wikipedia. Originally an informative retrospective of his entire career, detailing not only the work he’s done throughout the years, but the documented fan and industry response to his various projects, Byrne discovered it the other week and immediately set about to “correct” things.

Here’s the problem. Byrne didn’t just want to go through to clarify points or streamline the entry - he wanted to dismantle the entire page. He deleted everything except for the opening biographical paragraph and the bibliography. He deleted every bit of information regarding his career stages, his interactions with fans, pros, etc., claiming that the entire entry was fraught with inaccuracies and lies.

Thing is, they weren’t....

Comments

[rewil.livejournal.com]

Everything I know about John Byrne I've learned from the V.

... He's a real minefield of entertainment, I'll give him that much.

[jim-smith.livejournal.com]

Is there nothing John Byrne will not reboot?

[bishop282.livejournal.com]

I miss the Next Men. I remember reading the editorials he would add to the issues and getting a feeling that he was cantankerous.

Wikipedia sounds like a good idea in theory, but seems to be problematic in practice.

[aardy.livejournal.com]

Having finished slogging through the entire discussion page on Wikipedia about this, particularly the posts of the last two days, it sounds like The Powers That Be plan on bringing back most of the article, as soon as they can find some verifiable citations for the problem parts--apparently, the original article writer was often going on "I remember reading this in a fan magazine back in the day, but I can't find the cite right now", which Wiki considers to be almost as bad as reversion wars.