Talk:Ellen Fanning

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Wikipedia Story

Today Fanning interviewed Jimmy Wales regarding the accuracy of Wikipedia. One of her claims was that someone had put that she was the brother of Bernard Fanning on her Wikipedia page.

Dig a little firther, and you find that [this][1] was the innacurate edit.

If you search for the [IP address on whois][2], you get this: OrgName: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre OrgID: APNIC Address: PO Box 2131 City: Milton StateProv: QLD PostalCode: 4064 Country: AU

Do a search in [Google for Milton, Queensland and the Nine Network][3] and the first result points to a company that has "worked for Silicon Data, Memorex Telex and The Nine Network in IT management"

Seems slightly suspect, especially seeing as the suburb of Milton has only 1,500 people. Wmoisis 01:33, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NSlookup returns the name of the machine of that IP Address as: CPE-58-169-167-43.qld.bigpond.net.au

Vandalisim Central

It seems that after Ellen Fanning made a story about Wikipedia many people have attacked her on her website. I have semi protected this page. Harrison Bass - HB4026 01:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, just adding the template doesn't do anything. Only an admin can protect an article. In fact, adding the template to an unprotected article is actually a bad thing - an admin may see it and mistakenly believe that it is already protected. I have, however, s-protected it so now it is protected. To any other admin, if you feel it should be unprotected as a page likely to be hit by first time visitors (you can edit this page right now!), please feel free to do so. --BigDT 01:16, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Smoker

Fanning used to a heavy smoker, smoking for twenty years as evidenced by her teeth. She has cut down to one cigarette before bed.

You have been adding a claim about this person being a smoker [4]. I have no earthly idea if she is or was ... but under WP:BLP, this kind of thing cannot be added unless it is (1) sourced and (2) not giving undue weight to a minor episode in this woman's life. (In other words, it isn't significant that some guy smokes unless they campaign against smoking or something. It would be like mentioning that George W Bush likes steak. So what?) --BigDT 01:21, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]