On 6 May 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:
Date: 06 May 2003 15:58:00 +0100 From: Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de Subject: [WikiEN-l] "Moses ben Nachman" and NPOV
Please take a look at:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/ wiki.phtml?title=Joseph_McCarthy&diff=895253&oldid=894480
(the URL may need to be pasted together). This edit, marked as *minor*, is the work of one "Moses ben Nachman", a Wikipedia user with a very brief edit history who just announced on his talk page that, "after several months, I have decided to give this internet project another chance."
I strongly suspect that "Moses" is really the banned user Clutch. The above edit is exactly his style (like changing "heavy drinking" to "social drinking"), and even includes a link to a text on Clutch's homepage ("How the Marxists destroyed Joe McCarthy"), reactor-core.org. Moreover, if you check his user page, you will find that he was immediately welcomed by Clutch -- and then complained about RK, as Clutch also did. In the McCarthy edit, he removed large slabs of text without explanation.
I'm not involved in the McCarthy article, but I suggest people keep an eye on it, and on "Moses'" other edits. Yes, the McCarthy article was slightly POV before the edits, but I doubt that it will be possible to make it NPOV with the "help" of someone like "Moses".
Here's an interesting point, now. If you look at http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target... (I hope that wraps OK, you may have to tack it together), it looks like this is the same person (at least, the same IP, with only the two contributions to date) that told Ril aka Lir/Adam/et al. to check its email about a week ago. Geeze, are these people in cahoots, cooperating to make our lives difficult? Or is it just more of Adam talking to itself to try to convince us it's not all just one big hydra?