Steve Maich (journalist, Maclean's) stated that the controversy could damage Wikipedia's future as a media business operation, observing that Wikipedia's model was supposedly built upon trust and credibility.
Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy | Investiture Controversy | controversy | Alta controversy | Jeremiah Wright controversy | Cleveland Browns relocation controversy | Oakland Ebonics controversy | Miss USA 2009 controversy | Marrow Controversy | Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy | Hockey stick controversy | Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy | Whitewater controversy | Three-Chapter Controversy | Stem cell controversy | Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy | Kanye West's controversy of Taylor Swift | George W. Bush military service controversy | Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy | Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy | Essjay controversy | Engagement controversy | Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy | 2010 Itawamba County School District prom controversy | 2007 National Football League videotaping controversy | 2007 Formula One espionage controversy | Zoé's Ark controversy | Virtual economy#Controversy: "Real" Economy Interaction | UBS tax evasion controversy | Turner Controversy |
Written as a popular history, the text ranges from short biographies of Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger and Ward Cunningham, to brief accounts of infamous events in Wikipedia's history such as the Essjay controversy and the Wikipedia biography controversy.