On Nov 13, 2007 11:41 AM, Alec Conroy alecmconroy@gmail.com wrote:
Now, if I understadn things, PM has already told you his identity. you knew he was a longstanding, good-faith editor, not a jon awbrey sock.
Actually, the 'original identity' of PM was a user with less than a thousand edits and whose contributions to the project in earnest didn't start until January 2007. He had a dozen or so edits in 2005 and only a couple in 2006. Almost immediately after he resumed editing, he was embroiled in Wiki politics, stirring up trouble in the Essjay affair among others. His encyclopedia-space editing is only about a fifth of his edits, and most of those are to just a small handful of articles. Notably, they seem to have been picked mostly for their notoriety and for being the locus of disputes.
I don't think this is a good faith editor. I don't think this supposed original identity is the first identity this person has taken on Wikipedia either.
I don't think it's Awbrey - it's not his style, and does not share his idiosyncracies. However, this is not a person here to contribute in good faith; they're here for the drama.
-Matt