---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Prine cprine@tribweb.com Date: Apr 18, 2005 8:58 PM Subject: Block To: wikien-l-owner@wikipedia.org

Hello. I have been trying to resolve a highly contentious issue for some time. I have sought to complain about it, but after doing so I was "blocked" by the person I believe is the chief offender, Gamaliel.

Here is the background:

I would like to ask for assistance.

There has been an ongoing, bitter, dispute between me and two "administrators" who have sought to selectively edit an entry on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Tribune-Review).

Earlier versions of the encyclopedia entry included patently offensive, erroneous and frankly libelous contentions, including the malicious lie that the newspaper had called the wife of a prominent presidential candidate a "lesbian."

This aside was created by a user called Gamaliel, and supported, for a time, by another user called Willcmw.

A review of their collaboration can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gamaliel/Archive_3.

A mediator did arrive, long after I requested one, and long after I had worn down the others, dissuading them from printing erroneous, unlawful and unreferenced material.

While the material disappeared, thankfully, from the main entry, it continued to appear in the Discussion section, and the incorrect info continued to be retrieved by Internet search engines.

While I agree that it is generally important to maintain disputed material in archive form, this likely shouldn't apply to words that are malicious, offensive or libelous.

I would most appreciate someone taking care of this.

At 1644 EST (USA), I removed all of the disputed material at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pittsburgh_Tribune-Review, only to see Gamaliel continue to replace it.

I feel this is vandalism.