- Editor known as Essjay "a tenured professor of theology at a private university in the eastern United States"
- history department at Middlebury College announced that it had banned students from citing articles found on the Web site in academic papers.
- "The main reason we distrust it," said professor Don Wyatt, chairman of Middlebury's history department, "is that it's an open source. It's subject to too many hands in its editing and, as such, errors abound."
