Sunday, October 22, 2006
A chance to verify Anyas Tale?
In what must be a shocking blow for Harper Collins (HC), Wikipedia have deleted the entry for Wanderingscribe from their site.
Why should it concern HC?
Well, as you will be aware, the purpose of Wikipedia is to act as a repository for truthful facts.
A notice posted on Wikipedia (dated 23rd September) stated that Lawyers of Harper Collins had been in touch regarding some of the so called facts and that further additions to the page were temporarily banned whilst legal teams looked at it.
Quite what they were looking at was never disclosed.
Within a day or two, the ban was lifted and the Anya Sicko-fants continued to alter the data and, as previously seen on the Anya Peters blog comments section, attempted to manipulate the facts to bolster the fanciful tale being woven by the author.
On 19th October, Wikipedia posted a notice at the top of the post regarding the Wanderingscribe blog ands subsequent Wikipedia entry and stated that "it looks like an attempt by a publisher to whip up controversy about a book in order to generate sales."
Although stating that there would be a 5 day period of grace allowed to prove the claims presented by the author using the pseudonym of Anya Peters (either directly or via HC), the page was deleted less than 48 hours later.
Wikipedias rules state that "content which fails inclusion criteria for Wikipedia, is incapable of verification with reputable sources, .... is usually deleted."
One can only imagine that the combined might of Harper Collins legal team (who would surely count as a reputable source) were unable to provide any substantiated proof about their claims regarding Anya Peters (which you would have thought would be easy to prove).
Will this stop the marketing process for the book that has already swung into action?
Doubtful, however, you can be pretty sure that any mention of the deleted Wanderingscribe entry on Wikipedia will be omited when HC are trying to drum up interest.
Unless of course folks stumble on this humble little blog ......
You can find a copy of the Wikipedia entry before the Anya Sicko-fants tried yet another cover up, here.
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Yes, but the HarperCollins legal team may have something to say about you reproducing the cover without permission.
Phew !
Lucky for me that their terms and conditions allow me to reproduce it then.
(is it your first day in publishing?)
:o)
I have an idea for Harper Collins.
A tie-in with McDonald's.
Here it is: McDonald's start to sell Abandoned Happy Meals, except (here's the clever part) they are called "Misery Meals" instead (get it?)
It's no less cynical than writing a fake blog by a fake homeless person, then asking homeless charities to lend kudos to your money making scam by asking them to market your fake book.
Also, isn't it amazing how people are so terrified of these big companies? OMG YOU REPRODUCED THE COVER OF A BOOK OMG NOW YOU WILL GET INTO TROUBLE
Get into trouble?
You mean pregnant?
Oh my!!
Homeless and up the duff !!
I feel a second book in the pipeline .......
Antenatal Hugssss....
Anya Peters (Single Abused Homeless Mother-to-be)
Soooooooo... if she's not actually writing the damn thing... what the **** is she doing ? Not posting on the blog, that's for sure.
BTW, iffn you go the the Wikipedia entry for WS, and click on the 'history' tab, you can peruse ALL the different versions and revisions. :-) Interestingly, my contribution - that in an interview with thebloggingtime WS admitted she chose her email addy the same time she started the blog, that is February this year - was removed soon after inclusion. Because it proves she got the BT addy when you had to pay for it. Thank me later. :-)
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