Seems the list is run by " ultrablue at gmail.com, dgerard at gmail.com, andrew.lih at gmail.com, fennec at gmail.com, ed.poor at att.net" WHo have no problem manipulating the user base.
Interestingly I haven't seen any sign of there explanation of for hat matter anything else. Seems a but antisoial to me.
Check Violet Rigas mod to the "Grand National", for her own reasons she has decide it is in Liverpool. WHen actually due to little things like boroughs etc it is actualy in Sefton.
You can check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incid entArchive1#3RR_at_the_troubled_Clitoris_article
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Her is a typical rant fro John Bradley (john@ontobus.co.uk) [050423 00:50]:
I think it is everyone who cares about Wikipedia as an encyclopedia rather than a social club stepped forward and be counted.
Personal attacks toward other editors are not tolerated because they drive other volunteers away from editing. This is bad for Wikipedia.
Really. I pretty much don't care how much of an expert a given editor is - if they're acting like an arsehole and making editing an unpleasant experience for others, we don't need them. There are PLENTY of really quite high-grade experts editing Wikipedia who don't in fact act like arseholes.
(This does, however, require a more than usual tolerance for and patience with stupid fellow volunteers amongst the experts in question, and occasional annoying having to prove things from first principles on talk pages when the well-meaning idjit doesn't get it. This is quite a bit less than ideal, and we need ways to deal with it, but it still isn't an excuse for personal attacks.)
Note that Irate, the user in question, has not shown even this level of justification for his streams of personal attacks.
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As for my address. I thnk you should stop worrying less.
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John Bradley wrote:
Perhaps you can explain why I am required to act in this way but not the likes of Violet Riga, Matt Crypto or lots of other people.
They are too. Do you have examples of when they have done this?
My annoyance started when Violet Riga got me blocked on a totally spurious request and has both not been punished and has nor apologized. It is referenced earlier on, in the thread.
Which one?
I am quiet happy to have all my stuff up there provided other peoples is subject to the same conditions, but that does not seem to be the case.
I'd like to see some of these violations.
For instance I am chastised for not replying to people were as David Gerrard and most of the members of the arbcomm feel that they do not have to reply.
Sorry, can't answer that without a reference.
Or for instance why Pcpcpc would use a sock puppet to perform edits of extremely dubious quality and then not explain why he acted the way he did.
Unfortunately tracking sockpuppets is quite difficult. Can you provide a diff?
As for spam, the address is on several WWW sites as a contact so it is virtually impossible to make it worse and Spamihilator seems up to the job. I've also had this email for about 15 years now, which also means it is well known.
My concern about your address is about your *residential* address.
You'll find I have used a spell checker but there is no guarantee that word correctly spelt is the right word.
Spell checkers are notoriously innaccurate. They also can't check grammar.
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