QUOTE(Rootology @ Sun 13th July 2008, 10:58pm)
I can only imagine the mail list is going nuts over this case now.
No of course not, that would be Off-WP organised attacking of Wikipedians, and Tony Jenny won't have any of that.
Here, criticism of Wikipedia, and the edits made there, and the treatment of the editors there, is out in the open for all to see. Some people really don't like their actions on Wikipedia being exposed. Take FeloniusMonk/Odd Nature. He's been recently exposed via incontrovertible IP evidence as an abusive sockster. Bet he and his Wikielite friends really don't like that.
Apparently, that's not beneficial to the Wikielite. It's better for them if things get swept under the rug, not talked about like that crazy Uncle no one talks about at family reunions, and all the other loose cannon fire is discussed on elite mailing lists so the Peasants don't get the "wrong" idea about the Nobility.
I'd wager that the Cla68's of WP would stand behind all of their edits on WP, even though they don't have friends to "oversight" the more unpleasant ones. Jayjg and SlimVirgin? Not so much.
I'd also wager that Cla68 would not make a 24th hour complete and utter lie about an RFA candidate being loosely associated with a bogeyman (the "same state" incident) in order to torpedo an RFA. Jayjg (24th hour Tor Incident) and SlimVirgin (24th hour SameStateAsWordbomb incident) ? Not so much.
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