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"Johann Hari suspended from the Independent following plagiarism row". Guardian News and Media. 12 July 2011. The latest allegations to surface in the past week relate to claims that Hari used a pseudonym to make unflattering edits to the Wikipedia entries for journalists including Nick Cohen, the Observer and Spectator columnist, and Daily Telegraph writer and novelist Cristina Odone.
Cristina Odone (11 July 2011). "I fell out with Johann Hari – then 'David Rose' started tampering viciously with my Wikipedia entry". The Daily Telegraph. At the same time, a mysterious person also started tampering with Hari's enemies' Wikipedia entries. Mine started featuring all kinds of inaccuracies: I had been embroiled in rows over my anti-semitism and homophobia (not true); I'd been fired from the Catholic Herald (not true). Tellingly, my Wiki entry also included a long description of how I had attacked Johann Hari. This struck me as curious: in a professional life that included encounters with Pope John Paul II, Tony Blair, Mother Teresa, Gordon Brown and Kingsley Amis, I didn't quite see why Hari merited a paragraph, and the rest didn't get a look in. I thought no more about it – until a "friend" of my mother's teased her about my Wikipedia entry.
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Her Wikipedia article in the news
Enough reliable sources are covering Cristina Odone and her Wikipedia article that I think it's worthy of inclusion in the article itself. Not being a long-time editor of this article, I'm asking for other opinions. Here are just a few of the more mainstream mentions of the controversy:
"When he fell out with Hari, Cohen found that a certain “David r” had tinkered nastily with his Wikipedia entry; the same happened to Cristina Odone when she questioned the reliability of young Johann’s journalism." —The Telegraph
"Observer columist Nick Cohen and former New Statesman deputy editor Cristina Odone are among those who found their Wikipedia entries trashed by a user named "David r from Meth Productions" after disagreements with Hari, while Hari's own page remained spotless." —Huffington Post
"Odone, who had criticized Hari's work at the New Statesmen, also found that her Wikipedia page contained allegations that she was 'homophobe' and an 'anti-Semite' and "such a disastrous journalist that the Catholic Herald had fired her," Cohen reported. He continued: "Her husband, Edward Lucas, went online to defend her reputation, but 'David r from Meth Productions' tried to stop him. Mr 'r' gave the same treatment to Francis Wheen, Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson after they had spats with Hari. It didn't stop there. Lucas noticed that anonymous editors had inserted Hari's views on a wide range of people and issues into the relevant Wikipedia pages, while Hari himself had a glowing Wikipedia profile -- until the scandal broke, that is -- much of it written by 'David r'." —Huffington Post
"The latest allegations to surface in the past week relate to claims that Hari used a pseudonym to make unflattering edits to the Wikipedia entries for journalists including Nick Cohen, the Observer and Spectator columnist, and Daily Telegraph writer and novelist Cristina Odone." —The Guardian
