QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sun 12th April 2009, 3:58am)
Your opening a thread about your WP editing puts me in an awkward position. I'm able to show that you had a serious conflict of interest (not just as a LaRouche follower)
People here were able to show that Jossi Fresco had a serious conflict of interest. He was a PR worker for Prem Ruwat, cult leader.
No one at Wikipedia gave a crap. Jimbo Wales even wrote that Jossi was "
a great Wikipedian" after it was made public. What Jossi was up to on Wikipedia didn't bother me. What bothered me was that your "serious conflicts of interest" were treated in an arbitrary and unfair way with punishments meted out to some but not others.
I've looked at virtually every edit Hersch has made, and I see no difference in principle between his edits and Jossi Fresco's.
Shouldn't edits be judged on their merits? Or should users be profiled; "tracked down to a name, home address, telephone number, and place of work", and railroaded off no matter what they've been writing on Wikipedia?
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Here's you giving Jossi your approval:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jossi/Awards QUOTE
The Barnstar of Diligence
For your steadfastness, faith, great negotiating skills, and all your hard work in keeping the new policy alive and smoothing the transition from the past to the future. :-) SlimVirgin (talk) 00:24, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
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Here's what happened when someone gave Herschelkrustofsky one of those barnstars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=18172179---------
This brings me back to my main thesis:
I believe that you, Slim, were responsible for fostering a damaging culture that warped the notions of "outing" and "conflicts of interest" - that exploited memes of "stalking and harrassment" ("I could be killed if exposed") which ultimately, like the ludicrous anti-LaRouche campaign and many others, subverted Wikipedia from within, causing massive problems for many people. Add to that the blatant cronyism, which you exemplified, and you have the definition of a dysfunctional and dangerous process.