The bowdlerising project does ssem to have died a quiet death , all right.
Examples of pages with links to porn/adult sites in them (all found in 20 seconds):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_James and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carey.
I fail to see any constructive purpose to them, and and any school that can reasonably
be described as decent or respnsible is (not) going to love them.
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I was wondering if someone could do soem fact-checking, copyediting and
expansion for me on the following new articles:
Goldschmidt Sex Scandal
Portand Tribune
Kendra James
Dwight Jaynes
Phil Sanford
J.E. Clark
I need additional ifnromation for the article on Sam Adams (Oeegon
Poltiican), which is essentially a stub, and to expand the article on
Vera Katz.
Michael Hopcroft
Hi list,
--- John Bradley <john(a)ontobus.co.uk> wrote:
> I would like to request the following page be deleted
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto/list. It seems to be a list of
> things I have created.
Not quite. This page is a list of the pages [[User:Irate]] (aka John Bradley)
edited (in his last 500 edits) before he was banned. I created it [1] to keep
an eye out in case he attempted to circumvent his ban (using the "related
changes" tool, of course). I have some evidence this vigilence may be
necessary; Bradley has said on this mailing list:
"I have started the WLF and the PFLW in an attempt to reverse the
perversion of the system introduced by the ArbComm and various admins.
Who are basically so up tight because they have a very limited ability to
control Wikipedia, what with DHCP etc."
And more explicitly in private email to myself:
"As I've said before to the arbcomm they do not have the ability to block
me,
as I currently via the company VPN have 10+ IP access points on 3 continents. I
also have access to a spell checker."
Currently, I have no intention of deleting this page, although I might consider
it if someone (other than Bradley, of course) asked me politely.
My advice to everyone is simply to ignore this user. I've had no luck engaging
him even after exchanging several emails. You're welcome to try, of course, but
I believe you'd be wasting your time in his case. He's banned for three months,
so he's not a current problem.
-- Matt
[[User:Matt Crypto]]
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John Bradley wrote:
> So in other words I do have to put up with it.
You don't have to put up with anything. You can find
other projects to work on.
RickK
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I would like to request the following page be deleted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto/list. It seems to be a list of
things I have created. It was created on 12:23, 2005 Apr 19 post dates the
arbcomm case. I find Matt Crypto's interest in me worrying.
Yours
John Bradley
Loc: Flat 15/22 Gambier Terrace, Liverpool, L1 7BL, UK.
Phone: +44 (0)151 708 7238
Email: john(a)ontobus.co.uk
WWW: www.ontobus.co.uk
I honestly believe many admins are abusing their blocking privileges
and that the arbitration committee is not working. Here is what has
happened to me. I have written and edited NUMEROUS articles, you can
see a list on user:Please Don't Block. Most of these were edited under
the name "Noah Peters." In December and January I engaged in a heated
contest with several other users over the Abraham Lincoln page, much of
which I have written, over whether to include Lincoln's alleged
homosexuality on the page. This provoked a long editing war which
resulted in the material being deleted. After this, I started editing
the "gays in Nazi Germany" article. These edits were in good faith. But
one user, Apollomelos, a self-described homosexual, began smearing me
with all sorts of false charges, including that I vandalized the
Abraham Lincoln page (not true) and that I am a member of the Ku Klux
Klan (also not true). I grew very alarmed at these allegations and
requested my username be changed to "5440orFight," because "Noah
Peters" is my real name and I don't want to get smeared with these
charges. Well, the admins were totally insensitive to this desire and
referred to "Noah Peters" repeatedly in a derisive way, many branding
me a homophobe, and still do to this day even though the username is
dead. Indeed, many admins have hurled false charges against that
username to this day. For example, my userpage now says, "As Noah
Peters he had a habit of reverting pages or removing the texts of
others, was warned and switched to 5440orFight and got blocked by an
Admin under that name for continuing the same practice." This is
completely untrue, and yet whenever I try to change my userpage it gets
changed back by some admin, and if I persist in trying to change it I
am blocked.
Out of frustration with Apollomelos' charges, I had a fit of bad
judgment and added the now-deleted "gay" template to various articles.
I was promptly blocked by fvw, another homosexual administrator, who no
longer works on wikipedia. Frustrated at the fact that my IP username
page included charges against me that were not true yet kept being
reverted back by various admins when I tried to delete them, I deleted
fvw's page repeatedly in retaliation for my own inability to edit my
personal page. I also made ill-tempered remarks to other admins who
reverted my repeated attempts to delete my userpages. Meanwhile, my
efforts to get my username changed have gone nowhere, and I panicked
and emailed an admin to tell him to please delete my username; I didn't
want my reputation ruined.
Then, Apollomelos decides he wants to pursue arbitration against me,
taking several of my quotes out of context and embellishing with false
charges. I was never informed arbitration was being pursued against me,
but it was. Apollomelos has done this to several other users; putting
quotes out of context and making misleading edits and over-the-top
allegations. He also does not allow edits to the gay-themed pages and
smears anyone who changes these pages as "homophobes" if they write
anything he doesn't agree with. Read his talk page. In another fit of
ill-temper, to combat his own charges against me, I created
user:Apollomelos2 and user:Apollomelos3. I can't delete Apollomelos2,
even though it was blocked as soon as I created it, it must remain,
"Abusive sockpuppet of Noah Peters."
Now, whenever I try to get a new username, it is blocked for being an
"abusive sockpuppet of Noah Peters." Whenever I try to delete the pages
of my old usernames which bear the title, "abusive Sockpuppet of Noah
Peters" (never mind that "Noah Peters" no longer exists) and which are
now blocked, they are reverted back; I have absolutely no control over
them; they must remain as monuments to Apollomelos' false charges and
my bad response to them. The admins don't understand why I have to get
a new username and instead assume I am creating a username for
vandalism. So I can't have a new username. This is really frustrating.
It is also frustrating that the "Noah Peters" username has attracted a
false reputation for bad and misleading edits when all of my edits
under that name, except for some ill-temper that was provoked, was of
strerling quality.
The latest thing is that I chose the username, Jesus H. Christ III.
Refdoc blocked this permanently on account of it being offensive;
though if I had known it would be offensive, which I did not (Jesus
Christ is a cultural figure too, I didn't know that anyone on wikipedia
would care), I wouldn't have damned well picked it in the first place.
No one will ever be able to edit under it again unless Refdoc wills it
to be so. I can't delete the userpage either; it must be reverted back.
I can't delete the false charges against me from any userpage; they
must remain because the admins said so.
I then picked a new username and complained about my treatment on
Refdoc's talk page. His response was to ban my new username for, of
couse, "obvious reasons."
I have never been able to communicate with anyone on wikipedia; no
human interface to explain what has happened, to explain that I have
added a lot to wikipedia and want to be forgiven. The first instinct is
always to ban me; always to revert without asking me; always to assume
my bad motives; never to communicate.
I want all references to "Noah Peters" deleted. The username is banned
permanently and I want admins to stop damn well referencing it. I want
to be anonymous with an anonymous username not smeared as a sockpuppet
so I can edit without fear to my reputation. And this process has been
hellish for me. This is a community of mistrust and anger, of abusive
edit wars, of sarcasm, of contempt; not of support.
NP
Pardon me for the newbie question.
I have just had an article on Con suites apparently deleted. Another
article on the band Uffington Horse is in danger of deletion, but at
least in this case it was stated why. What i would like to know is if
there was a way to find out why specific articles were deleted so that
corrections can possibly be made.
Thsi is especially useful as far as articles on fandom topics (such as
the article on con suites, which are rooms at science fiction
conventions where free food and drink is served to participants) could
easily be viewed as irrelevant by non-fans and deleted needlessly or
reflexively.
Michael Hopcroft
--- John Bradley <john(a)ontobus.co.uk> wrote:
> He is stalking. I have been nformed that keepingtrack of users is bad form,
> atleast if I do it.
OK, I promised myself that I'd ignore you, but this was so silly I had to
reply...how could I possibly be keeping track of your actions on Wikipedia if
you're *banned*? You don't have any actions on Wikipedia! How on earth can I be
"stalking" a user who is prohibited from editing?
Seriously, John, there comes a time in some disputes to simply walk away and
get some perspective. Maybe now is that time?
-- Matt
[[User:Matt Crypto]]
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--- Christiaan Briggs <christiaan(a)last-straw.net>
wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2005, at 5:03 pm, Rick wrote:
>
> > I don't want to be forced to go to a link every
> time I want to see an
> > image. If there were some way to do it in the
> Preferences, then I
> > have no problem at all.
>
> Whatta ya think of
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/End-user_image_suppression
Besides the fact that I really hate the title
("suppression"? EEK!), the proposal still relies on
POV image labelling, which I will always object to.
RickK
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