timeline february essjay account registered essjay states on his wikipedia user page that he teaches graduate theology with doctorates in theology and canon law a public viewable version of this claim as dated is visible on the internet archive please note that if you click on the above link and you have an irc client installed on your computer either your client will open or if you already have your irc client open new tabs channels will be opened july the new yorker publishes an article on wikipedia written by stacy schiff which features an interview with essjay january essjay is hired by wikia january essjay posts autobiographical details on his user page at wikia giving his supposed real name ryan jordan age and previous employment history from age and his positions within various wikimedia foundation projects these details differ sharply from previous assertions on essjay's wikipedia user page about his academic and professional credentials january daniel brandt contacts the author of the article about discrepancies in jordan's biography ian king february another wikipedia editor challenges essjay on his talk page about the discrepancy and he responds with an explanation february jimmy wales announces the appointment of essjay to wikipedia's arbitration committee arbcom wales later asserts that the appointment was at the request of and unanimous support of arbcom february the new yorker publishes the correction for its july issue which appears in its the mail section of its print version it is picked up by online sources within the next day march wales asks jordan to resign his positions of trust jordan promptly retires from wikipedia altogether and later resigns from his position at wikia march story covered by the the new york times march jordan's hometown newspaper publishes an article casting doubts about his january claims on his wikia userpage that he had worked for the united states trustee program and had been a kentucky paralegal wolfson andrew wikipedia editor who posed as professor is ky dropout the courier journal march march story covered in an associated press article march story appears in two minute segment on world news with charles gibson march the new yorker publishes a formal apology by wales in its march the mail section the essjay controversy related to a prominent wikipedia administrator and salaried wikia employee essjay later s