I only have a slight suspicion that Kenneth is Adam, but I'm absolutely certain that PP is Lir, due to evidence of PP�s physical location, the fact that he continued Vera Cruz's edit war on New Imperialism, and everything else. Moreover, I can easily recognize his style and views, perhaps having corresponded with his identities more than all but a handful of other contributors. Perhaps if Adam is violating Mr. Wales' trust by confiding in him that he's not PP, his claims that he no longer has a vendetta against the "Wiki cabal" aren't trustworthy either. We all know that Lir's personas often targeted Mr. Wales' user page with tirades against his "totalitarian dictatorship." Kenneth, who is persistently vandalizing Mr. Wales' user page, seems to be following in Adam�s footsteps, but with a greater intensity and viciousness. We must question why a new user, assuming that Kenneth is a new user, would make similar proclamations against the cabal? How would a new user know to target Jimbo right away? It took me about a month of active usage to even find out who Jimmy Wales is! I think that a developer should trace Kenneth's physical location. If that clears Adam, I will personally apologize to him on the mailing list for my stated suspicions. [[User:172|172]]
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Kenneth, who is persistently vandalizing Mr. Wales' user page, seems to be following in Adam?s footsteps, but with a greater intensity and viciousness.
While it is obvious that Lir is/was PP, I think it is out of the question that Kenneth (? I don't really know how the last character of his nickname is pronounced) is Lir -- Lir has never insulted people on this level:
# 12:54, Aug 14, 2003 User talk:Kennet ( == BUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALES == BUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMB) # 12:48, Aug 14, 2003 User talk:Kennet (BUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALES) # 12:40, Aug 14, 2003 User talk:Kennet (JIMBO WALES IS SHIT) # 12:37, Aug 14, 2003 User talk:Kennet (BUTTFUCKER)
Aside from that, it's completely irrelevant -- Kenny has done more than enough to warrant a ban, but right now, we're experimenting with auto- reverting instead of hard-banning, which so far seems to be successful. (The fact that this wastes lots of harddisk space and bloats our database of old article revisions bugs me on a purely technical level, though.)
Regards,
Erik
It's probably worth noting that comments like these are not particularly bothersome to me. I put a lot of thought and heart into Wikipedia, and the things that bother me most are when good people are getting upset with each other when I'd like to see us respect each other and treasure our similarities and differences.
Idiots like this do serve one very valid purpose: they unite us in understanding what it _really_ means to be a nit or troll. :-)
Erik Moeller wrote:
# 12:54, Aug 14, 2003 User talk:Kennet ( == BUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALES == BUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALESBUTTFUCKER JIMB) # 12:48, Aug 14, 2003 User talk:Kennet (BUTTFUCKER JIMBO WALES) # 12:40, Aug 14, 2003 User talk:Kennet (JIMBO WALES IS SHIT) # 12:37, Aug 14, 2003 User talk:Kennet (BUTTFUCKER)