Leader ID: b500db May 6, 2017, 9:54 p.m. No.330562   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>330474

> > I agree to acknowledge, without reservation, that Reuters, the Chicago Business Journal, People Magazine, and ABC News are all WP:PRIMARY sources.

 

There was an unexpected end to that. Bbb23 banned BlueSalix and LavaBaron (from the Frank Gaffney edit war) as sockpuppets of each other. There does not seem to have been an SPI, so either he runs checkuser on people without probable cause or he received information from a backchannel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_BlueSalix

 

And in an update to >>330421 JzG desysoped himself for burnout. He had been catching flak for banning econlib.org because he doesn't like libertarians and was starting to delete references to the marxists.org library after an inconclusive RSN debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=775717482#Desysop.2C_please

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#econlib.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_224#Marxist_Internet_Archive

Leader ID: b500db May 7, 2017, 3:50 p.m. No.330568   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Return of Kings has launched Kings Wiki and is promoting it by taking potshots at Wikipedia which provides plenty to criticize. They focus on Jytdog going after Janweh64 for properly disclosing his paid editing, and they give a brief mention to Endercase trying to remind the egotistical admins about Wikipedia policy.

http://www.returnofkings.com/120700/wikipedia-is-a-dire-warning-of-what-happens-when-you-let-social-justice-freaks-take-over

Leader ID: b500db May 10, 2017, 7:37 a.m. No.330575   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Concentrated cancer on Wikimedia-ML in February 2017

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086206.html

 

It starts with a post by Yair Rand questioning why the Wikimedia Foundation took a position on refugee policy without an internal discussion.

 

> The Wikimedia movement

 

Wikipedia is a movement now? I thought it was an encyclopedia.

 

> is both global and very ideologically diverse …

 

score: 50%

 

> Recently, political advocacy on Wikimedia forums has risen substantially, especially on this mailing list. While I sympathize with the difficulties these contributors face in remaining silent …

 

Wrong answer. You are supposed to discourage them from bringing their unrelated bullshit into the business and using wikiproperties for evangelism. If they keep doing it, get rid of them. Otherwise you have the choice of either giving up any pretense of neutrality or allowing people to spam the mailing lists with WND and Free Republic. Saying that you symapthise with them only encourages it.

 

> We will be much worse off if half of any given country's political spectrum can no longer cooperate in our mission

 

Half? You think it is only half? They are banning socialists who are insufficiently adherent to the party line.

 

> We are precariously close to the point of no return on this …

 

The point of no return was the Gamergate ArbCom case when Wikipedia allowed biased administrators to ban people for following policy and having a POV that was supported by the RS at the time. The Democratic Party activist group Personal Democracy Media gave the admins barnstars for holding Wikipedia to a strict party line. ArbCom chose not to see a conflict of interest, chose to uphold the invalid bans, and chose to explicitly approve of what the admins were doing. After ArbCom gave them the green light, the admins have gone wild with banning anyone they disagree with on any subject where they have a party line to push. They have been especially harsh on anyone who points out their own policy violations.

 

Finally, Rand gets to the point:

 

> Three days ago, the WMF put out a statement on the Wikimedia blog explicitly urging a specific country to modify its refugee policy, an area that does not relate to our goals. There was no movement-wide prior discussion, or any discussion at all as far as I can tell.

 

> It is the responsibility of the community to ensure that our projects remain apolitical. A neutral point of view is impossible if participating requires a certain political position.

 

> It is the responsibility of the mailing list administration and moderators to act against this list's rapid slide into unreadability.

 

Let's see how Wikipedians respond…

Leader ID: b500db May 10, 2017, 7:41 a.m. No.330576   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Andrea Zanni plays buzzword bingo:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086207.html

 

> Having a global and diverse movement means finding value, albeit implicitly, in diversity (of language, sex, gender, culture, pov). The NPOV is not a "null" concept: it means giving weight to different point of views, merge them together to find a balanced article on something.

 

Which is why it is bad for Wikipedia to ban all news sources other than the left wing of the corporate mainstream.

 

> The MuslimBan can affect volunteers or staff at the WMF, it goes against everything we believe in.

 

"Look at how outraged I am at absolutely nothing just because other people are pretending to be outraged at something that does not exist and I want to fit in!"

 

Natacha Rault says but Hitler!

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086212.html

 

> I am personnallly pretty impressed from across the ocean: in the 30s had some leaders shown more courage maybe Hitler would not have been able to start a genocide.

> We are watching from over the ocean, as europeans these refugee bans remind us of very dark memories.

> (actually there is no achieved NPOV on Wikipedia in what concerns the gender biases as far as I see it)

 

Amir Ladsgroup makes shit up:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086214.html

 

> This ban caused hate crimes against Muslims all over the world. Terrorist attacks in Canada, setting fire mosques in Texas are all because of this simple ban.

 

and exposes institutional bias inside WMF:

 

> - People in WMF voted for Trump: If that's true, which I don't know because anyone from WMF I know were publicly against Trump, It's very saddening to see someone who works for WMF votes for someone who practically opposed everything Wikimedia movement stands for.

 

Pax Ahimsa Gethen plays buzzword bingo:

 

> My opinions as a US-American, member of multiple marginalized groups (queer/black/trans), and "social justice warrior" (though I prefer "mage", being a pacifist):

> - Having a truly "neutral point of view" when it comes to anything regarding Donald Trump is not really possible.

 

because Trump publicly speaks in support of transgenders and gays and PoC so you have to love him, right? Oh, no. You are insane.

 

Robert Fernandez (Gamaliel) tries to justify his partisan abuse of tools

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086229.html

 

> To contend that Wikimedia activity is, can be, or should be always politically neutral is naive and comes from a place of privilege where your personal engagement will likely never be threatened by political interference.

 

Andy Mabbett is the first to come up with an argument for Wikipedia to get involved with this.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086223.html

 

> There were speakers and delegates at Wikimania 2012, in Washington DC, who would not have been able to attend under the current ban.

 

Fair enough.

Leader ID: b500db May 10, 2017, 7:45 a.m. No.330577   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ivan Martínez seems to really think that Trump will be able to make Mexico pay for the wall.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086225.html

 

> I may write this biased message from my place of enunciation: a country that has been threatened for several days directly by the decisions of the President of the United States.

 

Gerard Meijssen attempts to weigh sources.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086218.html

 

> When you talk about abortions, sources are important. What a political party, a government has to say is an opinion. What Doctors without Borders has to say is observable fact. What they say is backed by scientific observations.

 

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) might also have some expertise on the "refugee" issue, but I would not trust what they say about that.

https://gefira.org/en/2016/12/04/ngos-are-smuggling-immigrants-into-europe-on-an-industrial-scale/ http://archive.is/bFMDJ

 

James Salsman proposes that Wikipedia place a banner on every page.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086306.html

> We urge extraordinary measures a national general strike, work slowdowns, work-to-rule, stoppages, boycotts, protests, and civil suits by all with legitimate standing, to demand that the U.S. government expel their executive leadership immediately…

 

Gerard Meijssen brings up Bassel Khartabil.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086260.html

 

> We have let one of us die in prison [1]. The same argument. I will be honest; I hate this. I have trouble believing that people can argue this way. This was one of us and apparently we do not care.

 

Bassel Khartabil was jailed by Syria during the war. The government accused him of spying.

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/09/1614214

https://neotarf.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/the-jimmy-wales-foundation-and-free-bassel/

 

> Our reputation is in tatters [2] because of the way our servers are energised.

 

This refers to a website that nobody cares about that rates Wikipedia's electricity source as non-renewable. One presumes that the rating could be improved by paying off the website owner or his friends to "consult" by casting a magic spell over the electrical outlet so that the electrons coming in off the city's power grid will be from renewable sources.

Leader ID: b500db May 12, 2017, 3:31 p.m. No.330580   🗄️.is 🔗kun

JzG and Bishonen, with JamesBWatson concurring, indeffed Ellaqmentry for providing medical sources to support the use of acupuncture as a pain treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ellaqmentry

 

Ellaqmentry wrote about this and was published in the February Journal of Chinese Medicine, causing some drama back on the 'pedia. https://archive.is/rDVex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Acupuncture#This_article_has_been_mentioned_by_multiple_media_organizations-BRD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Journal_article_about_edit_wars_over_Acupuncture

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8326

Leader ID: b500db May 18, 2017, 7:12 p.m. No.330599   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>330595

> Redditors, including the SPAs and various shitbags that fought over the Gamergate article, are currently duking it out over whether /r/ShitRedditSays should be on an article about controversial reddit communities.

 

featuring PeterTheFourth and MarkBernstein and Jorm. And Tarage, who was seen in the last thread: >>315398

> Liz reopened the complaint against JzG after Chillum admitted his involvement. A normal user named Tarage overruled Liz (who is now an admin) to close the report and threaten the filer with a block.

 

and Koncorde, who we haven't seen before. The previous discussion about SRS is archived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Controversial_Reddit_communities/Archive_1#SRS

 

One of the admins oversighted the addition of SRS to the page. This is usually only done for a BLP vio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Controversial_Reddit_communities&action=history

 

Someone had a bit of fun. A new user named Cecil B Pimento reverted one of Koncorde's posts for "persistent faggotry" and got indeffed by Bishonen for stealing his MO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cecil_B_Pimento

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cecil_B_Pimento#May_2017_2

Leader ID: b500db May 20, 2017, 1:46 p.m. No.330608   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Nauru either has a national soccer team or they don't. Some say they don't.

> (cur | prev) 11:55, 16 May 2017‎ 130.95.254.145 (talk)‎ . . (2,311 bytes) (-37)‎ . . (remove unofficial fan-made logo)

> (cur | prev) 13:19, 12 November 2016‎ IgnorantArmies (talk | contribs)‎ . . (222 bytes) (-2,086)‎ . . (WP:BOLDly redirect to Soccer in Nauru – as noted there, Nauru has no official national team)

> (cur | prev) 09:42, 12 November 2016‎ IgnorantArmies (talk | contribs)‎ . . (2,308 bytes) (-255)‎ . . (remove colours – totally unsourced, and given the team has only played one game probably made-up)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nauru_national_soccer_team&action=history

 

on Talk:

> Seems not very important, as they have not played a game in over 16 years. 82.141.66.217 (talk) 22:00, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

 

Fenix down insists that they do and protected the page to keep the IPs from editing. An IP reported this to ANI.

> [User:Fenix down] keeps adding wrong material to [[Nauru national soccer team]]. I have removed it twice and now he has blocked me from editing it.

> He writes that the team exists (it hasn't played since 1994). Even the other article about soccer in Nauru says it "has no official national team".

> He writes that the Nauru Amateur Soccer Association exists (there is no evidence of this, and a [citation needed] already there).

> He writes that Nauru played the official Solomon Islands team in 1994 (the article directly contradicts and says that they only played random workers who were on the island).

> He uploaded a logo that is fake and non-offical, it is just fan art. It was either made by him or made by someone else on a fantasy graphic design website.

> He didn't respond to any of this, just said I was being "disruptive" and blocked me. I have done research for this, if he has done research to prove that he is right why doesn't he add it to the article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=781329056&oldid=781326381

 

JJBers closed the report within 15 minutes with the summary "Troll, edits were pure vandalism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=781330887&oldid=781329932

 

JJBers and Kleuske deleted the IP's response.

> How are they pure vandalism? Did you actually read what I wrote above?

> This is the board for admins, why are you even deleting my thread before any admins read it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=781337940&oldid=781337717

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=781337508&oldid=781337412

 

JJBers and MjolnirPants then accused the IP of personal attacks, threatened to block him, and deleted the IP's responses from his own talk page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:106.68.178.108&action=history

 

Neither side has gone to Talk or provided sources.

 

As a side note, IgnorantArmies was indeffed as a sockpuppet of Bozzio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:IgnorantArmies#Blocked_as_a_sockpuppet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DoRD/Archive_12#IgnorantArmies

Leader ID: b500db May 22, 2017, 9:54 a.m. No.330613   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Following up on >>329846, Motsebboh was blocked as a sockpuppet of BadmintonHist who was indeffed by Bishonen in 2013 for repeatedly breaking an interaction ban with Roscelese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Badmintonhist/Archive#02_May_2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive826#User:Badmintonhist_again

Leader ID: b500db May 22, 2017, 9:59 a.m. No.330614   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Following up on >>312094 from the previous thread, Future Perfect at Sunrise bullied SimpsonDG off of Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SimpsonDG

 

> I've been involved in quite a few projects in my life, both paid positions and unpaid volunteer projects. I can say, without hesitation, that Wikipedia is BY FAR the most hostile work environment I've ever been involved with. The Wikipedia "administrators" are the worst of the lot. Many of them seem to be only interested in acquiring power and authority within Wikipedia, and bullying other editors with threats to have them banned or blocked. Anytime you attempt to contribute to an article, your motives and credentials will be questioned, and your edits will be immediately deleted. If you complain about the instant deletions, these administrators will retaliate by searching your edit history and deleting your previous Wikipedia contributions one by one. I have personally gotten caught in some of this crossfire from time to time, and even had one administrator vandalize my user page. I recently caught another administrator rifling through my edit history for the sole purpose of looking for something he could threaten me with. It's no wonder that Wikipedia is hemorrhaging editors.

>

> Consequently, I've decided to quit Wikipedia and devote my energies elsewhere. Also, I've started a Wikipedia alternative called Nanopedia, where I'll be posting new encyclopedia-like articles from now on.

 

Nanopedia is currently just a few articles that he wrote along with an essay "The Case Against Wikipedia."

http://nanopedia.davidgsimpson.com/

Leader ID: b500db May 26, 2017, 4:40 p.m. No.330622   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0624

On WiA: Snooganssnoogan under the AE hammer for alleged anti-conservative POV-pushing https://np.red*dit.com/r/WikiInAction/comments/6conhx/snooganssnoogan_under_the_ae_hammer_for_alleged/

 

Snoogans got topic banned, but what makes this interesting is that a new Reddit account LordPrivyToastRack claims Snoogans is Tarc who was indeffed by ArbCom for offsite harassment. Tarc is a friend of the admins. If he is back, they would know it and would be knowingly letting him break an indefinite block. LordPrivyToastRack gave no evidence for this claim, but it does raise the drama levels.

Leader ID: b500db May 27, 2017, 5:20 p.m. No.330630   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0631

The Devil's Advocate identifies Kings Wiki founder Jean Valjean as a pedo named Nathan Larson who goes by Leucosticte on Wiki.

http://wikipediareview.proboards.com/thread/346/leucosticte-writing-wikipedia-criticism-return https://archive.is/tzd2n

 

We know Nathan Larson as Nasal Ant Horn, part of a gang of four users who came to a discussion about incels to accuse three other users of being a offsite Gamergate group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/Involuntary_celibacy_%284th_nomination%29#Allegations_of_Canvassing https://archive.is/FzvrX

 

If TDA is right, Kings Wiki is a honeypot.

Leader ID: b500db May 28, 2017, 2:40 p.m. No.330634   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0638

ArbCom stuck The Rambling Man with a one-way interaction ban on Bishonen because of two diffs, secret evidence, and secret discussions. Those voting were Euryalus, DGG, Doug Weller, GorillaWarfare, Opabinia regalis, and Mkdw, with everyone else recused or inactive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#Arbitration_motion_regarding_The_Rambling_Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#Arbitration_motion_regarding_The_Rambling_Man

 

TRM questions the process:

> Nothing I'm doing here is in any way subject to any restriction. On the other hand, what Arbcom have done is to (a) actively ignore anything I've said and (b) chill the discussion on admins who have abused their positions by demonstrating the extreme lengths Arbcom go to in order to protect them. The IBAN is unjust, but is a symptom. This needs the community to be aware of the machinations and the cover up. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:21, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

 

> I responded to you personally detailing the cadre of individuals about which that message was posted. I had hoped you would apply some logic to it, or at least to attempt some empathy. But no. The diffs outlined by GW are still publicly available and mention not one single individual by name, and, once again, for the avoidance of doubt, you 100% know the group of individuals I was referring to so stop with the false accusations. Similar to your false claim that all of this is still not publicly available. You even pointed me to a site where I could access rev-del'ed text. Good work. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:26, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

 

TDA has looked at TRM's history and found two diffs accusing Bishonen of making bad blocks

http://wikipediareview.proboards.com/thread/153/bishonen?page=3

 

> I don't think Bishonen is the admin you should be debating this with, especially given recent punitive blocks and their results.

 

> No, just to put the record straight, I did like Floq, and still do, yet he was enabled by numerous admins, including Bishonen, to call me a prck and to tell me to "fck off", and call me an "a**hole". That was an admin talking to an editor. Bishonen has recently made strongly damaging punitive blocks for no benefit to Wikpiedia.

 

Is that all this is about?

Leader ID: b500db May 28, 2017, 8:03 p.m. No.330635   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0636

Meet the Data and Society Research Institute.

https://datasociety.net/people/directors-advisors/ https://archive.is/RTv3V

 

Some of their board members:

  • danah boyd of Microsoft Research

  • Anil Dash who has his own thread >>324605

  • John Palfrey, co-director of the Berkman Center

 

Some of their advisors:

  • Cathy Davidson of the Futures Initiative https://archive.is/WlcLQ part of HASTAC https://archive.is/WbMpz run through the CUNY Graduate Center where Katherine Cross worked https://archive.is/8BvHy

  • Joi Ito, head of MIT Media Lab, brother of Wikimedia Foundation advisory board member Mimi Ito >>323039

  • Ethan Zuckerman, director of MIT Center for Civic Media, Wikimedia Foundation advisory board member >>323039 funded by Ruth Ann Harnisch http://archive.is/6YEOf

  • Christina Xu, funded by Ruth Ann Harnisch http://archive.is/6YEOf

  • Micah Sifry, co-founder of Personal Democracy Media

  • Andrew Rasiej, co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum

 

Now meet Thomas M. Charging Hawk, webmaster of Personal Democracy Forum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Charginghawk https://archive.is/Yuitz

> 02:44, 12 November 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+568)‎ . . User talk:TaraInDC ‎ (→‎A barnstar for you!: new WikiLove message) (Tag: wikilove)

> 02:43, 12 November 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+575)‎ . . User talk:TheRedPenOfDoom ‎ (→‎A barnstar for you!: new WikiLove message) (Tag: wikilove)

> 02:35, 12 November 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+555)‎ . . User talk:Gamaliel ‎ (→‎A barnstar for you!: new WikiLove message) (Tag: wikilove)

> 02:21, 12 November 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+555)‎ . . User talk:NorthBySouthBaranof ‎ (→‎A barnstar for you!: new WikiLove message) (Tag: wikilove)

 

That was two days after TDA requested an ArbCom case for Gamergate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate

Leader ID: b500db May 30, 2017, 7:47 a.m. No.330645   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1574 >>2689

Today at ANI, Slatersteven reported Mjollnirpants for blatant civility violations in deleting his comments and telling him to fuck off. Roxy the Dog and Only In Death ganged up on Slatersteven and told him he deserved it, and Boing Said Zebedee! closed the issue as "an unproductive minor dispute."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#another_fuck_off_from_MjolnirPants

Leader ID: b500db May 31, 2017, 8:39 p.m. No.330673   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Tarc says that early power user Jayjg was controlled by a team.

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8350

> > It is claimed that Jayjg stood down from Arbcom when the rule came in because he didn't want to give his identity to the WMF.

> "Jayjg" was a role account, "his" posts changed in style and tone at times, so there was never a single identity to give.

Leader ID: b500db May 31, 2017, 9:07 p.m. No.330674   🗄️.is 🔗kun

In February an IP reported Bishonen and Sitush to ANI for their conduct on the article Phulkian Sardars. Boing! said Zebedee blocked the IP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive945#Inappropriate_behaviour_by_editors_User:Sitush_and_User:Bishonen_.28already_tried_RSN.3B_no_resolution_achieved.29

 

Since Bishonen's behavior is the cause of the Rambling Man case, the IP gave his experience. Bbb23 blocked the IP, called it a troll, and revoked its talk page access before it could appeal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard&diff=782604414&oldid=782602221

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/68.234.199.122

Leader ID: b500db June 7, 2017, 12:12 p.m. No.330693   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2102

Franzboas is an alternate account that was created in accordance with Wikipedia's valid alt policy to edit in highly controversial areas involving with white supremacists and antisemites.

 

For example, on Zionist Occupation Government Conspiracy Theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory

 

Franzboas added an example of Israel Shamir using the term ZOG in a 2004 book about the Iraq War to the history section which lists examples of prominent antisemites using the term ZOG. Rockypedia edit warred to remove it and denied that the history section included other uses of the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory&diff=783355011&oldid=783290011

 

Franzboas quoted Leonard Weinberg's article On Responding to Right-Wing Terrorism in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence to describe what antisemites believe. Rockypedia edit warred to remove it and claimed that the journal is an unreliable source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory&diff=780591444&oldid=780571297

 

On Jewish Bolshevism, Franzboas suggested that the article should discuss how "Jews were strikingly overrepresented in many communist movements," while taking care to differentiate this fact from conspiracy theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jewish_Bolshevism

 

Franzboas explained himself on Newyorkbrad's talk page.

> many mainstream and largely uncontroversial writers (including many leftist Jewish academics) discuss the influence that Jewish identity, Jewish values, and Jewish interests had on major political movements and schools of thought. Many of these narratives are then exaggerated by far-right extremists, but excluding them from Wikipedia on that basis would be censorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Newyorkbrad https://archive.is/dbxaa

 

Cue the usual admin lynch mob. Drmies suggested that Franzboas should be banned for knowing history.

> Brad, it's getting better and better: Talk:Jewish_Bolshevism#Adding_a_sentence_about_baseline_truth_to_the_lead: this editor thinks that a "baseline truth" is "Jews have been proportionally overrepresented, sometimes heavily overrepresented, in many Communist movements". I think it's time to make some decisions here. Drmies (talk) 12:57, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

 

Shock Brigade Harvester Boris began the false accusations.

> This self-acknowledged alternate account is clearly a violation of WP:GHBH. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk)

 

Dennis Brown banned Franzboas.

> I've indef blocked the user. I will post this at WP:AN for review as it is an unusual block. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 13:59, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

 

And the virtue signalers celebrated the banning of an editor who had not made a single racist edit.

> Gentlemen, you have greatly restored my faith in WP governance by intelligent analysis and swift decisive action. A.k.a. Good block! Irondome (talk) 14:44, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

> Thanks to both of you for your good judgment here. GABgab 22:44, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Leader ID: b500db June 7, 2017, 12:13 p.m. No.330694   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Dennis Brown moved the discussion on Franzboas to the Administrator's Noticeboard where the virtue signaling and celebration continued.

> Oh, and I support this block, did I forget to mention that? Bishonen | talk 15:10, 4 June 2017 (UTC).

> Support block. See User talk:Rockypedia#Jews in cultural anthropology and ethnography, where the editor falsely asserted that I "supported" her or his antisemitic vandalism. — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 15:54, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

> Good block. Thanks for taking it upon yourself to do what needs to be done. El_C 16:49, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

> Obviously a good block. Neutralitytalk 17:09, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

> the block is needed given the comments on Newyorkbrad's page. EvergreenFir (talk) 17:35, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

> Endorse block and thanks to Dennis Brown for decisive action. I saw some of the advocacy and it was corrosive. Johnuniq (talk) 23:32, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

 

Drmies used checkuser tools to identify Franzboas's main account, and Beyond My Ken calls for blocking that account too.

> Good block - I knew it would come to this after the arbitration request. My only question is why this wouldn't extend to the primary account, since it is the person who made the edits, not the account… Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:14, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

> The main account should be blocked as well. Not sure why it hasn't been. –NeilN talk to me 23:58, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

> Trying to game an alt account to shield yourself from repercussions of what the user clearly knows is unacceptable behavior is not okay. EvergreenFir (talk) 04:19, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

> Whomsoever the ultimate jurisdiction should fall to, I am increasingly inclined to expect a siteban. There is no place for (fairly open) antisemitic fascists on WP, who are now openly attacking other vulnerable minority groups. No place. Zero tolerance. Irondome (talk) 00:28, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

> Personally, I would be looking at blocking the main account as well. It is utterly ludicrous that the misuse of a sock implies some sort of privacy… Black Kite (talk) 18:20, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

> Support - If current policy is interpreted to mean that users can create scrutiny-evading socks to make racist/anti-Semitic comments on the encyclopedia and level despicable personal attacks at other editors without penalty to their primary account, our current policy is fatally broken and must be changed… NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 04:07, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

> … this just seems like it was a mis-cue to allow the alt account in the first place. Given the subject matter the alt account was set up to engage in, and the whole Arb Com discretionary sanctions within that subject matter, it seems right to indef block of the master account. — Maile (talk) 22:40, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

> Support for the abuse of WP:VALIDALT in order to violate WP:NOTADVOCACY in a sustained way. That alone is enough, without even mentioning the nature of what they were promoting. The thing that is puzzling is that as ugly as the editing was, there was this shred of honor in disclosing that it actually was an alt account. So odd. Jytdog (talk) 04:39, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

> We have an editor, who has a legitimate alt account, that was making anti-Semitic comments. How is this not gaming the system?… Both the sock and master need to go, this behavior has no place here. RickinBaltimore (talk) 13:55, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

> What in the hell provision of SOCKLEGIT is being used here to even protect the master? They gave that up by posting a bunch of malicious, discriminatory and basically awful shit… Capeo (talk) 01:25, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

 

The discussion includes no evidence showing any kind of racism or violation of WP:NOTADVOCATE by Franzboas.

Leader ID: b500db June 7, 2017, 12:56 p.m. No.330695   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Wikipedia has a guideline, not a policy, that you are not allowed to list the editors of academic journals without a reliable source describing the editor's involvement in the journal. This is because many academic journals fluff up their reputation, i.e. lie, by listing as editors prominent academics who have no actual involvement in the journal. Remember that Wikipedia considers these journals their most reliable sources!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JWG#List_of_authors_and_full_editorial_boards

 

Headbomb, the author of this guideline, removed the names of advisory board members from the page for the feminist journal philoSOPHIA. Randykitty and DGG concurred. SlimVirgin and Hypatiagal edit warred to restore the names, and then SlimVirgin placed the article under Gamergate discretionary sanctions and threatened to block the opposition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:PhiloSOPHIA#Advisory_board

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Dispute_over_philoSOPHIA_article

 

Salvidrim took this to ARCA, arguing that a dispute over a Wikipedia guideline is not a gender-related controversy. GorillaWarfare agrees with SlimVirgin's assertion that it is. Discussion is ongoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Clarification_request:_GamerGate

 

The article was nominated for deletion a week ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/PhiloSOPHIA

 

The journal's board includes Judith Butler who thinks that Hamas and Hezbollah are progressive movements. How reliable!

https://web.archive.org/web/20170307131345/http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/01/is_judith_butler_the_new_edward_said.html

Leader ID: b500db June 9, 2017, 7:23 a.m. No.330725   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Bilby is suppressing news of the Evergreen State College riots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Evergreen_State_College#Recent_events

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Evergreen_State_College&diff=783379836&oldid=783354865

 

After Uppah 27334 proposed a section of text on the talk page, Bilby rejected it.

> Your text contains significant errors and relies on unreliable sources. It misses the main issues in what happened, and currently it is very difficult to get a picture of what the issues were, as the mainstream media is mostly ignoring the story, leaving it to tabloids and agenda-driven press. - Bilby (talk) 15:57, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

> Please point out these "errors." Uppah 27334 (talk) 16:01, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

> What "main issues" did I miss? Uppah 27334 (talk) 16:02, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

 

A week later, Bilby has not answered Uppah's questions.

 

And there is the usual Wikipedia practice of declaring all non-leftist sources to be "unreliable."

> we both need to stay clear of unreliable sources such as The Daily Caller, NY Post and the like… - Bilby (talk) 23:53, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Leader ID: b500db June 11, 2017, 5:50 p.m. No.330728   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Wikipedia's power users have banned another source.

> Additionally, Washington Times is not a reliable source.Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:43, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

> Not only Washington Times is unreliable source (this is not Washington Post), but this edit is a 1RR violation on the page [22]. My very best wishes (talk) 13:43, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:White_Helmets_(Syrian_Civil_War)

Leader ID: b500db June 13, 2017, 7:13 a.m. No.330774   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Sagecandor, Northbysouthbaranof, and Dumuzid have been gang-protecting the page for military analyst Malcolm Nance to remove any mention of a controversial statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Malcolm_Nance

 

Sagecandor accused Power~enwiki of trying "to be disruptive and jeopardize the stability of this page" for removing one line from the lede that is repeated in the main article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Terrorists_of_Iraq

 

Sagecanor refused a request from Seraphim System to stay off his talk page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Seraphim_System#Please_stop_making_false_baseless_claims

 

When Power~enwiki linked to Nance's own Twitter account and a Youtube video of Nance, Sagecandor said that Power~enwiki "cites Twitter and YouTube" as if he had linked to random people unrelated to the subject. Power~enwiki reported Sagecandor to ANI for wiki-lawyering and ignoring reliable sources. Black Kite closed the report after an hour and 40 minutes, claiming "there is nothing here asking for administrative intervention."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Sagecandor

Leader ID: b500db June 23, 2017, 10:43 a.m. No.330908   🗄️.is 🔗kun

I am not intentionally following Power~enwiki but he has showed up in the middle of several dramas.

 

PerfectlyIrrational was editing in a few controversial places and was banned by Bbb23 as a sockpuppet without an SPI or a link to the master.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/PerfectlyIrrational

Power~enwiki had reported PerfectlyIrrational to ANI for "disruptive" editing. MelanieN had a different take on it.

> My evaluation of the situation (not speaking as an admin, since I am WP:INVOLVED at that article): Perfectly made a sourced addition to the article. Power reverted it. Perfectly isn't going to restore it, since Power has challenged it and the article is under DS. What's supposed to happen now is discussion. It seems a little - what shall I say? premature? - to rush immediately to ANI over this. –MelanieN (talk) 23:45, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive957#PerfectlyIrrational

 

The Rambling Man accuses Power~enwiki of using multiple accounts.

> And what other accounts have you been using? The Rambling Man (talk) 20:43, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Power~enwiki&diff=787000256&oldid=786999727

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Power~enwiki&diff=787000669&oldid=787000360

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Jim_Michael_and_User:The_Rambling_Man

 

New user Técnico cited the New York Times to show that reliable sources differ on whether Breitbart should be described as "far-right" or "conservative-leaning." Power~enwiki reported Técnico to ANI for resisting the other Wikipedians' stonewalling.

> I request a full ban for 1 week. He's clearly either trolling, or not competent to participate on Wikipedia. Power~enwiki (talk) 04:07, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

 

Those ganging up on Técnico include Dr. Fleischman, Carl Fredrik, Johnuniq, Callmemirela, Jytdog, NorthBySouthBaranof, PaleoNeonate, Beyond My Ken, MrX, and TimothyJosephWood. Técnico responded by asking each of them to participate in the NPOVN discussion. Doug Weller accused Técnico of being paid by Breitbart. The mob slowed down when Masem noted that Técnico was following policy and no one else was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Breitbart_News

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard&oldid=786364164#Breitbart_News_lede_is_violating_WP:BALANCE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'noticeboard/Incidents#User:T.C3.A9cnico.28moved_from_WP:AN.29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:T%C3%A9cnico#About_your_post_on_my_talk_page

Leader ID: b500db June 25, 2017, 6:15 a.m. No.330913   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Sashirolls found something.

 

> I wonder if the Signpost would be interested in analysis of the $436K paid out in 2015-2016 to Minassian Media, Inc by the WMF according to their 2015 990 form. (The company is registered to Craig Minassian, Chief Communications Officer of the Clinton Foundation). Another story I'm working on is the superhuman effort of an editor who has written 17 book reviews this month. The two stories may even be loosely related based on political affiliation and strategy. SashiRolls (talk) 00:11, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

 

So not only is Hillary Clinton's PR company on Wikipedia, Wikipedia itself is funding Hillary Clinton's PR company. Over at AE they see this as grounds for an indefinite block of the person who found the information.

 

> Okay, after reading the link provided below, I support an INDEF from Wikipedia. Creepy indeed! – BullRangifer (talk) 15:26, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

 

> Well… I'm not going to have any hurt feelings over an indef. The above is just creepy AF, and this is starting to get into actual real life stalking. TimothyJosephWood 15:22, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Leader ID: b500db June 27, 2017, 12:06 p.m. No.330915   🗄️.is 🔗kun

SashiRolls found Sagecandor suspicious enough to track his activity.

http://ling.creoliste.fr/index.php?title=En-WP:Act_III--_The_Sagecandor_Incident

http://ling.creoliste.fr/index.php?title=En-WP:Press_Release_/_An_Open_Letter_to_ArbCom

 

which got him indeffed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SashiRolls

 

> the so-called "community" calling for my indef block also testified for leniency in the mass-POV editing case TParis v. Snooganssnoogans (20-24 May), to wit: Sagecandor, Neutrality, Bullrangifer, Volunteer Marek, Objective3000. Tryptofish & Neutrality were also both involved in arguing for the inclusion of a copyright violation of a piece placed in an IAC paper (Chelsea Clinton on the BoD). The piece was written by a DNC-associated author and the copyvio was added to the BLP page of a political opponent within 24 hours of its appearance.

 

so Boing revoked Sashi's talk page access.

Leader ID: b500db July 6, 2017, 8:14 a.m. No.330959   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1562

NorthBySouthBaranof, Grayfell, and Volunteer Marek are edit warring to scrub the CNN Blackmail Controversy article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:CNN_blackmail_controversy

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CNN_blackmail_controversy&offset=&limit=500&action=history

 

Volunteer Marek wants the article deleted and reduced to a brief mention in the CNN Controversies article. Objective3000 chimes in:

> This is a POV-fork and should be speedy AfD'ed. Objective3000 (talk) 10:44, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

 

NorthBySouthBaranof started an RFC to kill the article as "WP:NOTNEWS". In a little over three hours he had the unanimous support of MrX, LM2000, Zrowny, Saturnalia, General Ization, Objective3000, Volunteer Marek, and SageCandor. A few new users began to stand up in opposition while Grayfell, PeterTheFourth, ValarianB, Rhododendrites, and Smeat75 added their support to North's proposal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:CNN_controversies#Proposed_merge_with_CNN_blackmail_controversy

 

NorthBySouthBaranof reported Drakry to ANI for reverting his censorship and identifying North as a troll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Immediate_attention_needed_on_CNN_blackmail_controversy