(Bethesda) history is written by the victors

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Bethesda community manager Gstaff rewriting Bethesda history in Wikipedia.

This bit added by Chris Weaver to the ZeniMax article was also recently removed:

ZeniMax was founded in 1999 by Bethesda Softworks founder Chris Weaver and Robert A. Altman. Weaver's vision was to use Bethesda Softworks as the basis to create a hybrid media company to create cross-media properties such as PC and console games; interactive TV; mobile; web and new media. Weaver invited Altman to help him run the new company, but potential investors were wary of Altman because of his previous involvement in the BCCI scandal as well as making new investments in the field. As part of the deal, Weaver, sole owner of Bethesda Softworks, contributed his stock so that the new shell company (Zenimax) would be able to obtain funding. Robert Altman installed himself as CEO and convinced Weaver to take the position of CTO — a move that ultimately resulted in Weaver being forced out by Altman in 2002. Although still the largest shareholder, Weaver no longer has any day-to-day responsibilities with Zenimax. Altman is still CEO.
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One of the things wikipedia does well is revert shameless self promoting from companies. It's sad that they try and even sadder that they always fail. And this is why it was good The Vault stayed independent from Bethesda.
 
Well, here it's actually Bethesda people removing info from the articles in order to marginalize the role of Bethesda founder, Chris Weaver, who was forced out of the company by its current management. Weaver's edits were reverted, Gstaff's weren't. E.g. che changed "Bethesda was acquired by Zenimax Media, Inc., co-founded by Weaver, in 1999." to "Bethesda was acquired by ZeniMax Media Inc., founded by Robert Altman, in 1999."
 
Perhaps the true story should be posted here.

Shameless idealized self promotion should be left to communists and dictators.
 
I don't care enough about Bethesda to get into edit wars there. I'll simply post the unedited version at The Vault.
 
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