User:DarlaCrane
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My Plea
Hello there!
First off, thank you to those of you who have tried to be helpful as I find my way along the "Wiki-Path." I do appreciate your assistance.
I feel that I need to make something clear. Those of you who moderate (or whatever the more appropriate term might be) seem to be under the impression that I am trying to force my "P.O.V." about myself and others upon the readers of Wikipedia. This is definitely NOT the case! What IS true is that a certain model (Jewell Marceau) was unsure how to go about making changes to her profile herself and asked for my help.
She was extremely distressed to find that the year of her birth, her hometown, and her birth name had been posted here and she asked me if I could please try to fix what she considered to be a major problem. She understands that her recent legal issues have indeed already caused her legal name to be made available to the public (should they go looking for it), but her feeling is that the average Internet surfer would be far less likely to stumble across an article about her court case than they would by deliberately looking her up on Wikipedia.
We in the adult industry certainly understand that "civilians" have very little knowledge of how frightening it can be to become "famous" simply for performing in adult movies. We deal with stalkers, cyberstalkers and...erm...overly-ardent fans on a daily basis. Whenever our legal names and/or hometowns are published somewhere, people with less-than-kind intentions practically jump to find our families and share whatever (they think) they know about us. I know so many women and men who have suffered greatly because of this and have also experienced it myself. An industry man I know was shot at not too long ago and a woman I know was beaten almost to death by a "fan."
(Yes, right. We made the choice to join this industry and we should be prepared for the consequences. Of course it's more complicated than that.)
Many adult models really dislike Wikipedia because literally anyone with a grudge, a bad attitude, or just a cruel streak can come on here and say anything they want. I cannot even begin to tell you how many blatant -- even ridiculous inaccuracies I have found in the pages of Wikipedia. I have only made changes, however, when the involved party has asked for my help.
One model/producer (who is quite computer-literate and did not ask for my help) was shocked to see that whoever had set up "her" Wiki-page had done so with an utterly laughable amount of error in both grammar and spelling. Models I know usually try to divert attention away from "their" Wikipedia profiles because they never know what will show up on there next.
Well, that's pretty much all I have to say and I'm sorry to have droned on so long. Please know that I definitely DO NOT want to get into any kind of a battle with ANYONE over information posted here. Wikipedia has such great potential as a source of useful and entertaining information. I just want to help/protect my friends whenever I can.
Most Sincerely, --DarlaCrane 01:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
