The Orangemoody network seems to have been providing a service: bring the apparently
self-submitted but failed drafts of articles of persons, organizations, and businesses up
to compliance with Wikipedia standards and get them live, then accept a previously
negotiated fee. After some months of safeguarding those articles for free, they would
offer to continue doing so at a monthly rate. I'm not seeing the harm.
Oh, I'd like to check if the articles were actually unduly promotional and POV and so
forth, unfortunately the erstwhile investigators have deleted them so no-one except
administrators may see. Which comes in handy for the investigators, because it means
everybody must go by their characterizations of the articles.
I heard a murmur that Orangemoody would actually request deletion of its own articles if
the subject failed to agree to the monthly fee, but Risker said this vaguely as if there
were only a couple or few examples of this.
As well, though the IP addresses have not been disclosed, one of the accused Orangemoody
accounts belongs to a Bangladeshi editor of three or more years. Raising the question of
whether geolocation to Bangladesh and other nearby poor countries was a clue to the
investigators to connect the Orangemoody accounts. Which on confirmation would raise the
further question of whether the entire case was almost exclusively comparatively well-off
westerners destroying the business and livelihood of impoverished Bangladeshis and other
easterners just trying to put food on the table for their kids.
Trillium Corsage
02.09.2015, 21:53, "Matt Campbell" <email clipped>:
Glad to hear it.
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From: James Heilman <email clipped>
Date: 09/01/2015 10:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam
targeting small businesses and celebrities"
We have a number of discussions ongoing with respect to what measures we
should take to address the issue of promotional paid editing generally and
to prevent this from happening again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Wikip…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/Paid_editing
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MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
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As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation
My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF
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