Talk:Eliot Wigginton

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A fact from Eliot Wigginton appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 April 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that educator Eliot Wigginton, editor of the landmark 12-volume Foxfire oral history anthologies, had to give up teaching in 1992 after pleading guilty to child molestation?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/April.

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Why is there no information on this guy? He edited the Foxfire books, then disappeared? There should definitely be an article about him.

I always wondered this too. So I looked into it. Now you know. Say it ain't so, Eliot. :-( Bruxism 01:37, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's now on the front page. Millions of people now know what happened and think of him so. What he did was awful, but is this an appropriate consequence/punishment for his crime? if so, shouldn't we have a page dedicated to people found guilty of child molestation, rather than mass publishing the crime of just this one man? Toby Douglass 15:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]