Harrison wrote a NOVEL about WP editors

[ericbarbour]

https://www.amazon.com/Editors-Stephen- ... 1950301672

Seriously, I hope it's a horrible flop. That's exclusive of my personal disgust with WP internal culture.

How the hell can anyone write a fairy tale about WP editing by basement-dwellers? Especially Stephen Harrison, an openly biased Wikipedia fan and not an especially good journalist OR writer? Trust me.....almost no one wants to read a book about the actual truth of WP editing and the mixed bag of nuts who do it. A novel had better be full of looney conspiracies and at least one car chase. (Wikipedia has looney conspiracies, but they are neither clever, nor effective. No car chases that I know of.)

For a sample of his magnificent prose:
https://slate.com/technology/2023/09/li ... rison.html

So far I've found VERY damn few reviews of the book. It hit the stores late last year and generated almost no publicity.

This interview was run last year.
https://www.studlife.com/special-issues ... -landscape

This one gave it 3.5 stars out of 5. Lukewarm. Oops.
https://novelsalive.com/2024/08/19/3-5- ... -harrison/

Does a Substack blog post count as a "review"?
https://edithistory.substack.com/p/step ... editors-is

Peter "Smallbones" Ekman, Werespieljerkoff, and Susan Gerbic raved about it on the Signpost, predictably. That doesn't count. Cults don't get a free coupon for "reviewing" novels about themselves. Especially not "reviews" written by some of WP's worst assholes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ook_review