Wikinews talk:Story preparation/Wikipedia class action lawsuit linked to possible earthquake charity fraud/Wikipedophilia

It started with this article on BAOU's OfficialWire about pedophiles abusing Wikipedia. The article is written by "Alfred Cunningham" who is allegedly a member of an organization called "Parents for the Online Safety for Children" founded in 1997. There is no evidence that this organization exists. However, searching for it leads to another domain, Wikipedophilia.com, a campaign blog focusing on the specific issue of "pedophilia infestation" in Wikipedia discussed in the article. It has a category for posts by the "POSC", but claims not to be affiliated with it. The domain name has a masked record and provides no information about the creators. The site was launched on December 13, 2005.

This blogger was one of the earliest commenters on the Wikipedophilia blog and may be associated with it.

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 Registrant:
 Domains by Proxy, Inc.

 DomainsByProxy.com
 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
 United States

 Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)
 Domain Name: WIKIPEDOPHILIA.COM
 Created on: 13-Dec-05
 Expires on: 13-Dec-06
 Last Updated on: 13-Dec-05 

 Administrative Contact:
 Private, Registration WIKIPEDOPHILIA.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
 Domains by Proxy, Inc.
 DomainsByProxy.com
 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
 United States
 (480) 624-2599
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 Private, Registration WIKIPEDOPHILIA.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
 Domains by Proxy, Inc.
 DomainsByProxy.com
 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
 United States
 (480) 624-2599

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 Registry Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK

Thought i'd dump the whois info here... it may come in handy. Seems to be a recent registration through some sort of anonymizing service. I wonder if this too is a purchase of BAOU. Alkivar 10:51, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Response

Wikipedophilia.com has no affiliation with POSC or BAOU. Prior to today the group QuakeAid was unknown to us. - Wikipedophilia Admin 05:59, 19 December 2005 (UTC)