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Robert Clark Young
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'''Robert Clark "Bob" Young''' (born 1960) is an American author of a novel, essays, short stories and journalism.  He has played a role in several prominent literary controversies.

== Life ==
(contracted; show full)g was accused by [[Salon.com]] reporter Andrew Leonard of using the username Qworty to edit the [[Wikipedia]] articles on his personal and professional adversaries in a biased and negative way, while adding puffery to and deleting criticism from his own. After initially denying Leonard's claim, Young admitted to being Qworty, and to having edited his own article along with those of writers with whom he had feuded. Soon after the story broke, Qworty/Young was indefinitely blocked from editing Wikipedia
.<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Leonard
| first = Andrew
| title = Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia
| work = Salon
| accessdate = May 20, 2013
| date = May 17, 2013
| url = http://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/revenge_ego_and_the_corruption_of_wikipedia/
}}</ref><ref name=indef_block>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Qworty&oldid=555676217#May_2013 Indefinite block notice on Qworty's discussion page.]</ref><!-- Do not remove ref to Qworty's user talk page. Use of Wikipedia as a primary source is justified because it has first been mentioned in a secondary RS. -->⏎
and his user page blanked.  As a result of Leonard's reporting, a [[Sockpuppet (Internet)|sockpuppet]] investigation was opened by Wikipedia editors to determine the extent of Young's editing under different usernames.<ref name=mess>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/05/21/wikipedia_cleans_up_its_mess/|title=Wikipedia Cleans up its Mess|first=Andrew|last=Leonard|publisher=Salon.com|date=May 21, 2013|accessdate=May 21, 2013}}</ref><ref name=qworty_spi>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet(contracted; show full)[[Category:American short story writers]]
[[Category:1960 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American essayists]]
[[Category:American non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:University of Houston alumni]]
[[Category:People from Imperial Beach, California]]
[[Category:Wikipedia personalities]]