Edward Owens, Pirate and Hoax: Shiver Me Timbers!
Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 19, 2008, 10:37 AM
The good folks at George Mason University (one of the most technologically sophisticated universities around--they brought us Zotero) have perpetrated a very clever hoax, creating a pirate, Edward Owens, an archive, an interpretation, and a Wikipedia entry. You can now find the corrected, exposed Wikipedia entry on Wikipedia with links to the sources that exposed this as a hoax. It's all smart, fun, and interesting. Especially to one who began her career writing on Ambrose Bierce and whose early mentor was historian Russell B. Nye.
The good folks at George Mason University (one of the most technologically sophisticated universities around--they brought us Zotero) have perpetrated a very clever hoax, creating a pirate, Edward Owens, an archive, an interpretation, and a Wikipedia entry. You can now find the corrected, exposed Wikipedia entry on Wikipedia with links to the sources that exposed this as a hoax. It's all smart, fun, and interesting. Especially to one who began her career writing on Ambrose Bierce and whose early mentor was historian Russell B. Nye.
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