More to the point, so what if you think he’s obnoxious and childish? Who are you to cast aspersions on anyone? Murphy would say you’re a little bug, waiting to be crushed. Who’s to say he’s wrong? You?

I don’t think so.

I had the misfortune of running into one of his socks on a biography I worked on and what did DM do? He added his own bullshit (unsourced) conspiracy theory to it and when it was removed, tried to get his tribe of sycophant morons to find out the editors’ real life identities so he could harass us in real life. This wasn’t an article about HIM nor did it mention him yet he felt compelled to “get us back” because we would take his word as gospel truth. The fact that he goes out of his way to irritate and harass anyone who doesn’t agree with him over the internet speaks volumes about him. He can dish it out, but he sure as hell won’t take it.

The only thing DM is against is anyone not bowing down to what he perceives is his own greatness. The only reason he pulls this shit is because it’s online. He tried being a badass in real life and got knocked the fuck out. Since then, he’s taken his resentment and bitterness out on the internet because he realized that in real life, people can and will smack the crap out of you.

The danger to society, and the reason WR members care about it, isn’t that someone like Murphy will continue to be pilloried and defamed (though it would be nice if they’d stop doing that). The danger is that public acceptance of the fact that Wikipedia is doing this to Murphy will ultimately legitimize their doing it to whoever they want. As the level of perceived “obnoxiousness” required to make someone a WP target continues to drop, the question becomes, how far will it drop? And will it someday disappear altogether?

She was upset that she wasted so many years on a forum run by a dick, and I was upset that she didn’t know you were a dick for so long.

Take your own advice, Murphy. GROW UP.

He progressively became more and more of a combatitive asshat, though, getting angry over the most trivial things.

He posted some topic a while back , and made a harmless joke post about a Transformer, it was deleted. She thought it was a mistake, and posted again. 10 minutes later, it was toast. The only admin/moderator online was one Don Murphy.

Don, you’re petty. You’re just petty. I’ve never seen a Hollywood big shot take the internet MORE seriously than you.

I hate Wikipedia as much as any rational person would, but for god’s sake, STOP BEING A BABY.

I don’t think minors should be administrators for any on-line publication that pretends to be serious. However, if they are allowed, then they should be no more or less immune from citicism as anyone else. If someone is exercising power on an equal footing with adults, then they ought to be liable to criticism on an equal footing as well.

Secondly, a legitimate encyclopedia would make its own determination of who’s eligible for an article. Wikipedia’s “notability” policy purports to guide this determination, but as with the rest of their rules, policies, procedures, pillars, principles and so forth, they are ill-defined and contradictory and so the result is an ad hoc determination.

I don’t blame Don Murphy for wanting Wikipedia to delete his article, and I’m not in the least bit surprised that Wikipedia has rebuffed him. One of these days, Wikipedia will cross the wrong person and pay the price for doing so.