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I am posting this in response to comments made by Hell Freezes Over in some recent threads. 9 days ago, this page at Wikipedia was deleted. Don't ask me why. It provided a useful chronology of how I was driven off the project. It included a description of my role in the Nobs01 and others arbcom case. I was the only respondent who was not named in the proposed findings of fact. If I had kept my mouth shut, nothing would have happened to me. Because I insisted on speaking out, asserting that the penalties doled out by the arbcom were inequitable (Cberlet was "cautioned," others who had committed comparable offenses were blocked or placed on probation,) I was place on indefinite probation. Fred Bauder justified this decision in the following way: QUOTE 15) In view of the dissatisfaction expressed by Herschelkrustofsky with the decisions reached in this case, and the apparent lack of insight into any role his own behavior played in the creation and aggravation of the problems which gave rise to this case, he is placed indefinitely on Wikipedia:Probation. Since this was a little too obvious, Raul654 covered the tracks with this edit.This action set the stage for what followed. Slim and Will Beback began wikistalking me to various articles, accusing me of adding ideas which they alleged were similar to ideas advocated at one time or another by LaRouche (see Searching for LaRouche under the bed.) They were assisted by 172 (T-C-L-K-R-D)
in setting a trap for me (into which I foolishly walked) at Synarchism (T-H-L-K-D). The article did not mention LaRouche, until 172 added a bunch of defamatory crap about LaRouche, which I should have ignored, because the article has probably been read by about six people. But, I removed it, and was charged with "editing a LaRouche-related article," in violation of probation. I protested that it was not a LaRouche-related article, and Slim's response was [paraphrase]"It is now."[/paraphrase] Now, you can still read this page, some great stuff which I excerpted from the ANI board. The admin who deleted my user page missed it. Hurry! Also, as a sort of postscript, this one, extracted from User talk:SlimVirgin.
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QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Sat 11th April 2009, 10:16pm)
This action set the stage for what followed. Slim and Will Beback began wikistalking me to various articles, accusing me of adding ideas which they alleged were similar to ideas advocated at one time or another by LaRouche ...
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), and that you misled people about your sockpuppets, but doing that would require me to post material that leads to a name, home address, telephone number, and place of work. I'd be banned if I were to do that. So let me simply ask you this instead. Do you believe Lyndon LaRouche is a reliable source (in Wikipedia terms or in any other)? Do you believe his views should be added to WP articles? Do you believe WP articles should be created about his real or proposed projects, when his publications are the only sources that mention them?
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QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sat 11th April 2009, 9:58pm) 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), and that you misled people about your sockpuppets, but doing that would require me to post material that leads to a name, home address, telephone number, and place of work. I'd be banned if I were to do that. If you're defining "conflict of interest" as Wikipedia defines it, we already know all about that. HK has (obviously) made no secret about his political affiliations, and if you managed to find an article or photo or musical composition of his that appeared on some Larouche-related website or other publication, well, congratulations. But that doesn't mean he's being paid by them, or has a title, or anything like that. Larouche supporters are nothing if not generous when it comes to contributing content, after all. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/bored.gif) Nobody here (well, hardly anybody) is particularly sanguine on the question of HK's ties to the Larouche Movement, but he's never threatened anyone here with even a whiff of sanction for disagreeing with him about any of that stuff. So, since he admits to it, and he's doing no harm here (or elsewhere, AFAIK, other than the occasional campaign contribution), what's the point of even bringing it up, other than to pursue your standard half-baked innuendo and conspiratorial hoo-ha campaign? Long story short, this dog won't hunt either. I wouldn't want HK or his pals running my country, and neither should you, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't have the same rights to express his opinions as anyone else.
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QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 12th April 2009, 4:21am) QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sat 11th April 2009, 9:58pm) 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), and that you misled people about your sockpuppets, but doing that would require me to post material that leads to a name, home address, telephone number, and place of work. I'd be banned if I were to do that. If you're defining "conflict of interest" as Wikipedia defines it, we already know all about that. HK has (obviously) made no secret about his political affiliations, and if you managed to find an article or photo or musical composition of his that appeared on some Larouche-related website or other publication, well, congratulations. But that doesn't mean he's being paid by them, or has a title, or anything like that. Larouche supporters are nothing if not generous when it comes to contributing content, after all. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/bored.gif) Nobody here (well, hardly anybody) is particularly sanguine on the question of HK's ties to the Larouche Movement, but he's never threatened anyone here with even a whiff of sanction for disagreeing with him about any of that stuff. So, since he admits to it, and he's doing no harm here (or elsewhere, AFAIK, other than the occasional campaign contribution), what's the point of even bringing it up, other than to pursue your standard half-baked innuendo and conspiratorial hoo-ha campaign? Long story short, this dog won't hunt either. I wouldn't want HK or his pals running my country, and neither should you, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't have the same rights to express his opinions as anyone else. Somey, I'm not talking about creating non-notable stuff, or POV stuff, or COI stuff. I am talking about someone *inventing* things. Making them up. Even you who wants to defend HK can surely see that that is problematic. Not least because, if he can do it there, he can do it here. If I'm wrong -- if this is just my "half-baked innuendo" -- I hope HK will explain what (and where) the Eurasian Land-Bridge is, and what Helga Zepp-LaRouche (of the [[Schiller Institute]], which HK is also involved with) is standing next to in that image. The point of bringing it up, as you asked, is that HK started a thread about his ban, with that as the title. And so I am giving just one example of why the ban is justified.
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QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sat 11th April 2009, 11:28pm) If I'm wrong -- if this is just my "half-baked innuendo" -- I hope HK will explain what (and where) the Eurasian Land-Bridge is, and what Helga Zepp-LaRouche (of the [[Schiller Institute]], which HK is also involved with) is standing next to in that image. There's a whole butt-load of web pages on that Schiller Institute site about this so-called "landbridge" - it looks like they're trying to propose some sort of express rail-freight line from China to Europe, which (I'm guessing, though educatedly so) probably involves a lot of standardization of railroad gauges and various other unlikely things. The inscription on the monument is obviously photoshopped. Are you just wanting him to admit that? This is the Larouche Movement, SV - we should be glad they didn't put her in front of the First Manned Base on Mars. QUOTE The point of bringing it up, as you asked, is that HK started a thread about his ban, with that as the title. And so I am giving just one example of why the ban is justified. Well, maybe it is. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/bored.gif) In other words, you're saying this landbridge proposal is basically a scam to get people to donate money to the Larouche Movement, right? Why not just say so? He (assuming it really was HK) clearly didn't just "make it up" out of whole cloth, the way you'd make up an article on Kitten Huffing or something. It may be he's been deluded into thinking this landbridge thing is very, very real, or he may just be a tool of the Vast Larouche Conspiracy, but that still doesn't mean your (and Wikipedia's) reaction was proportional to the offense. In any event, this Larouche stuff is hardly a major focus of WR, though I will at least admit that if it weren't for HK and his experiences on WP, we probably wouldn't hear much (if anything) about it here at all. So... happy?
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QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 12th April 2009, 5:49am) In any event, this Larouche stuff is hardly a major focus of WR, though I will at least admit that if it weren't for HK and his experiences on WP, we probably wouldn't hear much (if anything) about it here at all.
Not necessarily so. The whole LaRouche vs anti-LaRouche thing was a farce that had spilled out all over Wikipedia. Wholly unrelated people were getting threatened by Wikipedia powerplayers as "LaRouchies" on a regular basis. People saw it with their own eyes and have not been swayed by Hersch at this site. It was outrageous, and one of my first posts at this site was to highlight one such offense. In April, 2007, an editor went to SlimVirgin and Willbeback and wrote this about Mbhiii (T-C-L-K-R-D)
: QUOTE(User:172) New LaRouche editorThis looks quite familar now. [ 10] Like the last HK sockpuppet blocked by SlimVirgin, HonourableSchoolboy, this account has been editing articles that appear in my recent contributions history or are linked to my userpage. Sigh. 172 | Talk 19:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC) Thanks. Sadly, by now I can spot LaRouche propaganda from a mile away. 172 | Talk 20:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC) The message to SlimVirgin has since been deleted. But the spirit of the message is typical. The accused had nothing to do with LaRouche, and his edits had nothing to do with LaRouche. Yet he was immediately attacked as a "New LaRouche" editor. A group of editors, led by SlimVirgin, and accompanied by anti-LaRouche campaigners Chip Berlet and Dennis King (whose Conflicts Of Interest were never questioned) were allowed to treat Wikipedia like an anti-LaRouche version of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Thus creating massive bad feelings and subverting the whole culture of the place.
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QUOTE(Kato @ Sun 12th April 2009, 5:07am) Like the last HK sockpuppet blocked by SlimVirgin, HonourableSchoolboy, this account has been editing articles that appear in my recent contributions history or are linked to my userpage. Sigh. 172 | Talk 19:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
The message to SlimVirgin has since been deleted. But the spirit of the message is typical. The accused had nothing to do with LaRouche, and his edits had nothing to do with LaRouche.
Kato, you need to stop posting here without checking your facts a little. HonourableSchoolboy was a LaRouche account. Look at the contribs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...urableSchoolboyWhat happened was that HK turned up on WP to try to add LaRouche propaganda right, left, and centre. When opposed, he created socks. When blocked, he created more. Then he arrived here to trash the editors who stopped him, claiming to be innocent of all wrong-doing. You're going along with that because of "my enemy's enemy." That's fine. But if you won't criticize what HK tried to do on WP, you have no right ever to criticize any other editor, because he was one of the worst.
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QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sun 12th April 2009, 6:20am) Kato, you need to stop posting here without checking your facts a little. HonourableSchoolboy was a LaRouche account. Look at the contribs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...urableSchoolboyWhat about the account I was talking about and specifically referring to using diffs? Mbhiii (T-H-L-K-D). I'll say it again. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/dry.gif) In April, 2007, an editor went to SlimVirgin and Willbeback and wrote this about Mbhiii (T-C-L-K-R-D)
: QUOTE(User:172) New LaRouche editorThis looks quite familar now. [ 10] Like the last HK sockpuppet blocked by SlimVirgin, HonourableSchoolboy, this account has been editing articles that appear in my recent contributions history or are linked to my userpage. Sigh. 172 | Talk 19:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC) Thanks. Sadly, by now I can spot LaRouche propaganda from a mile away. 172 | Talk 20:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC) The message to SlimVirgin has since been deleted. But the spirit of the message is typical. The accused had nothing to do with LaRouche, and his edits had nothing to do with LaRouche. Yet he was immediately attacked as a "New LaRouche" editor.
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I wouldn't defend HK's editing, since he seems to acknowledge using sockpuppets. But, I think it's notable that SV switches to addressing this topic, while refusing to answer questions about her editing. Of course, there are strong reasons to question the idea that SV gave HK or others no reason to question her good faith. An example from experience: it was forty minutes before SV first decided to follow me to the bio of Folke Bernadotte (my experience with her then consisted solely of a conflict on the Zionism article), that she requested that I "post questions on the articles' talk pages from now on, please, rather than on my talk page, because others may want to respond too." After arriving on the bio, she then immediately moved my response from her talk page to the article talk page. The series of edits is here. Who asks another editor not to comment further on their talk page, immediately before first following the editor to another article? We aren't talking about a little rhetoric here, but flagrantly underhanded behavior. Another example I noted to arbcom was where SV adjusted a talk page several times over reversions, then immediately archived the page so that it wouldn't be undone ( point 8). Who escalates several reverts on a talk page by immediately archiving the page? It isn't even the outrageousness, but exactly the triviality of these acts that illustrated the disregard for even a semblance of good faith interaction. If SV wants a reevaluation of her conflicts on Wikipedia, that's great, just as long as she can acknowledge what she was actually doing. The truth is I don't think anyone would try to defend WR on whole anyway, but at least there could be a meaningful discussion. This post has been edited by Mackan:
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QUOTE(Mackan @ Sun 12th April 2009, 8:53am) I wouldn't defend HK's editing, since he seems to acknowledge using sockpuppets. But, I think it's notable that SV switches to addressing this topic, while refusing to answer questions about her editing. Of course, there are strong reasons to question the idea that SV gave HK or others no reason to question her good faith. An example from experience: it was forty minutes before SV first decided to follow me to the bio of Folke Bernadotte (my experience with her then consisted solely of a conflict on the Zionism article), that she requested that I "post questions on the articles' talk pages from now on, please, rather than on my talk page, because others may want to respond too." After arriving on the bio, she then immediately moved my response from her talk page to the article talk page. The series of edits is here. Who asks another editor not to comment further on their talk page, immediately before first following the editor to another article? We aren't talking about a little rhetoric here, but flagrantly underhanded behavior. Another example I noted to arbcom was where SV adjusted a talk page several times over reversions, then immediately archived the page so that it wouldn't be undone ( point 8). Who escalates several reverts on a talk page by immediately archiving the page? It isn't even the outrageousness, but exactly the triviality of these acts that illustrated the disregard for even a semblance of good faith interaction. If SV wants a reevaluation of her conflicts on Wikipedia, that's great, just as long as she can acknowledge what she was actually doing. The truth is I don't think anyone would try to defend WR on whole anyway, but at least there could be a meaningful discussion. Do you think it was only you? They always did that, back in the bad old days of 2005-2006, early 2007. Jayjg was even coldly bragging about it back in 2005, when their wiki-stalking was the norm ("agree with us or else.."), telling an editor that: " [we] simply reverted him regardless of what he edited. I've seen it happen to other editors as well". (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/sick.gif)
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QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Sun 12th April 2009, 11:20pm) As I have said before, I will respond to any evidence that I have used socks. The argument used by SV and Will Beback, and I assume Jayjg (who keeps his cards pretty close to his vest,) is that the various accounts that they have banned geolocate to southern California, and the idea that there could be more than one LaRouche supporter editing Wikipedia in southern California is just too big a coincidence to be believed. I mean, how many people live in southern California?
The connection was a little closer than just southern California -- it was the same IP addresses that a developer found for at least two of your accounts, possibly three, in the second ArbCom case. Not just one shared IP address, but at least two, one of which was on an abuse list for sending out LaRouche spam. *See the evidence from the second case involving Hershelkrustofsky (2005) here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...of_sockpuppetry brought against HK by Snowspinner, Cberlet, Will, and me. *For background, first HK case (2004), brought by HK against Adam Carr, Andyl, and John Kenney, is here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...Rouche/Evidence*Third case (2005) involving HK here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...nvolved_parties Brought by Cberlet against various parties, including HK, on BLP grounds, though this was before we had an actual BLP policy, I think, so it had to go to ArbCom.
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QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sun 12th April 2009, 8:14pm) *Third case (2005) involving HK here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...nvolved_parties Brought by Cberlet against various parties, including HK, on BLP grounds, though this was before we had an actual BLP policy, I think, so it had to go to ArbCom. Yes, the Cberlet who left in disgrace a few months ago after the decline of the clique that was formerly protecting him in his POV-pushing and conflicts of interest (citing his own material) while banning others who went against him on charges of doing the same thing Berlet was doing himself.
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QUOTE(dtobias @ Mon 13th April 2009, 12:31am) QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sun 12th April 2009, 8:14pm) *Third case (2005) involving HK here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...nvolved_parties Brought by Cberlet against various parties, including HK, on BLP grounds, though this was before we had an actual BLP policy, I think, so it had to go to ArbCom. Yes, the Cberlet who left in disgrace a few months ago after the decline of the clique that was formerly protecting him in his POV-pushing and conflicts of interest (citing his own material) while banning others who went against him on charges of doing the same thing Berlet was doing himself. This does seem to be true, which is one reason, SV why you don't have much moral high ground here. Why weren't Chip Berlet and DKing topic or indef banned if you were really interested in keeping the LaRouche article's NPOV? They're editing was almost as, if not just as, POV as many of the "Pro-Larouche" editors who were banned. As Kato and others have pointed out here, other editors like Jossi, Jayjg, and Mantanmoreland, with which you frequently interacted, were also unconcealed POV pushers. Why didn't you ever try to call them out on their behavior? This post has been edited by Cla68:
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QUOTE(Cla68 @ Mon 13th April 2009, 12:44am) QUOTE(dtobias @ Mon 13th April 2009, 12:31am) QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sun 12th April 2009, 8:14pm) *Third case (2005) involving HK here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...nvolved_parties Brought by Cberlet against various parties, including HK, on BLP grounds, though this was before we had an actual BLP policy, I think, so it had to go to ArbCom. Yes, the Cberlet who left in disgrace a few months ago after the decline of the clique that was formerly protecting him in his POV-pushing and conflicts of interest (citing his own material) while banning others who went against him on charges of doing the same thing Berlet was doing himself. This does seem to be true, which is one reason, SV why you don't have much moral high groud here. Why weren't Chip Berlet and DKing topic or indef banned if you were really interested in keeping the LaRouche article's NPOV? They're editing was almost as, if not just as, POV as many of the "Pro-Larouche" editors who were banned. Can you show me an edit from Cberlet that was almost as bad as the edits of the LaRouche accounts? Cberlet did not "leave in disgrace." He left because he was tired of having to fight lunatics to improve articles. You all claim to care about BLP. Chip Berlet and the article about him were attacked on Wikipedia by Nobs, HK, and friends, in a way that was absolutely deplorable. Nobs even implied Chip had some connection to a very serious criminal offence, at one point -- I won't post details here because it would be libel. Chip put up with it for two or three years. Did anyone here, anyone who cares about BLP so much, help him, even once? BLP applies to people we dislike, as much as to people we love. It applied to Gary Weiss too, and that is why WordBomb was indefblocked for posting that GW = MM. Yet you oppose that block, because you don't like the people involved. You don't even try to disguise the hypocrisy. Decisions about what's right and what's wrong are based entirely on whether you like the parties or not. It's sad that this is the standard of intellectual debate about Wikipedia.
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QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sun 12th April 2009, 9:32pm) You all claim to care about BLP. Chip Berlet and the article about him were attacked on Wikipedia by Nobs, HK, and friends, in a way that was absolutely deplorable. Nobs even implied Chip had some connection to a very serious criminal offence, at one point -- I won't post details here because it would be libel. Chip put up with it for two or three years. Did anyone here, anyone who cares about BLP so much, help him, even once? I think you fundamentally misunderstand the prevailing (I hate to use the term "consensus") members' position here on BLP articles, SV. If Chip Berlet had asked to have his article deleted, I think most of us would have supported that wholeheartedly - I know I would have, and I think I might have even said so at the time. Likewise, if the article was being vandalized, someone should have protected it - and as I recall, someone did do just that, at least twice that I can recall, just off the top of my head. But if The Chipster's ultimate objective was to have the article protected in a state he personally and explicitly approved of, then that's not something anyone here should care much about, other than to point out that it's unfair to all the other article subjects who don't have friends among the admins. As for helping him, don't be ridiculous - we were helping him, by pointing out the insufficiency of the existing BLP policies, advocating for opt-out, and proposing other kinds of reforms. He might not have recognized that we were helping him, but that's only because he was being told by certain people that WR was a "nazi hate-site" and other such nonsense. Also, Daniel Brandt was here, and he doesn't like Daniel Brandt. I guess it would be nice if you took the time to properly understand the culture here, but I understand that you wouldn't want to risk being drawn in to the point of actually having some degree of appreciation for the place.
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QUOTE(Somey @ Mon 13th April 2009, 4:25am) QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sun 12th April 2009, 9:32pm) You all claim to care about BLP. Chip Berlet and the article about him were attacked on Wikipedia by Nobs, HK, and friends, in a way that was absolutely deplorable. Nobs even implied Chip had some connection to a very serious criminal offence, at one point -- I won't post details here because it would be libel. Chip put up with it for two or three years. Did anyone here, anyone who cares about BLP so much, help him, even once? I think you fundamentally misunderstand the prevailing (I hate to use the term "consensus") members' position here on BLP articles, SV. If Chip Berlet had asked to have his article deleted, I think most of us would have supported that wholeheartedly - I know I would have, and I think I might have even said so at the time. Likewise, if the article was being vandalized, someone should have protected it - and as I recall, someone did do just that, at least twice that I can recall, just off the top of my head. But if The Chipster's ultimate objective was to have the article protected in a state he personally and explicitly approved of, then that's not something anyone here should care much about, other than to point out that it's unfair to all the other article subjects who don't have friends among the admins. As for helping him, don't be ridiculous - we were helping him, by pointing out the insufficiency of the existing BLP policies, advocating for opt-out, and proposing other kinds of reforms. He might not have recognized that we were helping him, but that's only because he was being told by certain people that WR was a "nazi hate-site" and other such nonsense. Also, Daniel Brandt was here, and he doesn't like Daniel Brandt. I guess it would be nice if you took the time to properly understand the culture here, but I understand that you wouldn't want to risk being drawn in to the point of actually having some degree of appreciation for the place. The biography of Chip Berlet should be deleted. He is barely notable and no encyclopedia worth anything will miss it. Berlet also requests the deletion in this Articles for Deletion debate. It is claimed that the article was originally created by Herschelkrustofsky, and I'll take Slim's word for that. Interestingly, if you look at that old Articles for Deletion debate, where Berlet adds his request for deletion, there are a few BLP extremists resisting for their own reasons. Including the later disgraced John254. Someone should try again, giving the rationale that the subject and the creator want the biography deleted, and stating the facts that Wikipedia is simply incapable of handling a biography on such a figure who has spent years claiming that Lyndon LaRouche is a "neo-fascist anti-Semite". Deleting the bio on Berlet would be a step towards closing that shameful LaRouche / Wikipedia episode.
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QUOTE(Kato @ Mon 13th April 2009, 3:12pm) QUOTE(Hell Freezes Over @ Sun 12th April 2009, 9:32pm) You all claim to care about BLP. Chip Berlet and the article about him were attacked on Wikipedia by Nobs, HK, and friends, in a way that was absolutely deplorable. Nobs even implied Chip had some connection to a very serious criminal offence, at one point -- I won't post details here because it would be libel. Chip put up with it for two or three years. Did anyone here, anyone who cares about BLP so much, help him, even once? I think you fundamentally misunderstand the prevailing (I hate to use the term "consensus") members' position here on BLP articles, SV. If Chip Berlet had asked to have his article deleted, I think most of us would have supported that wholeheartedly - I know I would have, and I think I might have even said so at the time. He did ask that it be deleted, but it was kept. But for years before that, at least two posters here (HK and Nobs) used Wikipedia as a platform to attack him via his BLP and its talk page, and I don't recall anyone here objecting. QUOTE As for helping him, don't be ridiculous - we were helping him, by pointing out the insufficiency of the existing BLP policies, advocating for opt-out, and proposing other kinds of reforms. He might not have recognized that we were helping him, but that's only because he was being told by certain people that WR was a "nazi hate-site" and other such nonsense. Also, Daniel Brandt was here, and he doesn't like Daniel Brandt. One of the people who was attacking him, and who created the BLP in the first place, is one of only four staff members here. This board has spent a lot of time attacking Berlet, for reasons I've never understood. Chip Berlet was someone who wrote for at least one real encyclopaedia. He was a published expert on the LaRouche movement and on right-wing extremist groups in general. He should not have been driven off Wikipedia just because a few people decided to use that website and this one to ridicule him. It's very sad that he was given no support here at all, even though you all claim to support expert editors and harassed BLP victims. Berlet was both.
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I am posting this in response to comments made by... CharlotteWebb
9 days ago, this page at Wikipedia was deleted. D... Heat
Of course he missed it. He wasn't born yet.
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[quote name='Herschelkrustofsky' post='167623' da... Kato
Your opening a thread about your WP editing puts ... Hell Freezes Over
Shouldn't edits be judged on their merits?
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Very much so. What do you think about this articl... Hell Freezes Over
[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='167668' dat... Kato
[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='167668' da... Hell Freezes Over
I suppose other than putting the non-notable and... Herschelkrustofsky
Do you believe Lyndon LaRouche is a reliable sour... Hell Freezes Over
1. LaRouche's publications are reliable sour... Herschelkrustofsky
[quote name='Herschelkrustofsky' post='167722' da... Hell Freezes Over
I believe his views on any topic should be subjec... Somey Do you believe his own views ought to be added to ... Obesity
[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='167728' dat... CharlotteWebb
Here is the photo in question, which shows LaRouc... Mackan
[quote name='Mackan' post='167725' date='Sun 12th... Kato
The point of bringing it up, as you asked, is tha... Jon Awbrey
And so I am giving just one example of why the ba... Jon Awbrey
And so I am giving just one example of why the b... Hell Freezes Over
There's a whole butt-load of web pages on tha... Somey I'm giving just *one* example. How much of thi... CharlotteWebb
Despite being asked many times by several editors... Jon Awbrey
The point of bringing it up, as you asked, is th... Jon Awbrey
[quote name='Somey' post='167686' date='Sun 12th ... dtobias
Who escalates several reverts on a talk page by i... Jon Awbrey
I wouldn't defend HK's editing, since he ... dtobias
You don't even try to disguise the hypocrisy.... Jon Awbrey
You don't even try to disguise the hypocrisy... dtobias
Psychological projection, anyone?
Gadzooks... The Joy
[quote name='dtobias' post='167865' date='Sun 12... Jon Awbrey
[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='167863' da... EricBarbour
You don't even try to disguise the hypocrisy.... Cla68
Can you show me an edit from Cberlet that was alm... Shalom RANDOM CRAP
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The biography of Chip Berlet should be deleted. H... Kato
I think you fundamentally misunderstand the prev... Herschelkrustofsky
It's very sad that he was given no support he... Heat
Chip Berlet was someone who wrote for at least on... Herschelkrustofsky
I think Berlet is a Reliable Source on Larouche. ... Kato
I think Berlet is a Reliable Source on Larouche.... Hell Freezes Over
I think Berlet is a Reliable Source on Larouche.... Herschelkrustofsky
[quote name='Herschelkrustofsky' post='168053' da... Hell Freezes Over
Chip Berlet was someone who wrote for at least on... Heat
[quote name='Kato' post='168048' date='Mon 13th A... GlassBeadGame
[quote name='Kato' post='168048' date='Mon 13th ... Hell Freezes Over
Much worse than that. Once he set himself up as... GlassBeadGame
Much worse than that. Once he set himself up a... nobs Slim: Let's cut to the quick (I just been info... EricBarbour Let's not confuse the cause of anti-communism ... Somey This is merely daytime entertainment, while she wa... Cla68
[quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='168062' date='M... It's the blimp, Frank
You never addressed my question from yesterday, w... Kato
[quote name='Kato' post='168048' date='Mon 13th A... the fieryangel
[quote name='Kato' post='168048' date='Mon 13th A... Jon Awbrey
Actually, I did come to this conclusion concernin... Somey He did ask that it be deleted, but it was kept.
Th... Hell Freezes Over
[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='168040' dat... Kato
I wonder how it would be possible to be a true ex... Somey Telling of what?
Sorry, that was just a knee-jerk ... Daniel Brandt
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Doug Birch, "Master of the Politics of Para... CharlotteWebb Or, more generally:
I wonder how it would be poss... Milton Roe
Or, more generally:
I wonder how it would be pos... Jon Awbrey
[quote name='CharlotteWebb' post='168118' date='M... Milton Roe
This is one of those Deja Vu to the N-th Power pl... GlassBeadGame
...settle in on the [size=3][color=red]SINGLE be... Heat
I wonder how it would be possible to be a true e... Herschelkrustofsky
[i]nobody likes Larouche, and Larouche doesn... Hell Freezes Over
Now in the late 1960s, there was a big change in ... Jon Awbrey
Now in the late 1960s, there was a big change in... Jon Awbrey
[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='168236' dat... Son of a Yeti
Now in the late 1960s, there was a big change in... Moulton Now in the late 1960s, there was a big change in A... Herschelkrustofsky
Now in the late 1960s, there was a big change in... Herschelkrustofsky
Now in the late 1960s, there was a big change in... nobs
...Nobs even implied Chip had some connection to ... dtobias
Mr. Hell Freezes Over
That's Ms. Hell Freeze... Jon Awbrey
As I have said before, I will respond to any evi... Herschelkrustofsky
As I have said before, I will respond to any evi... CharlotteWebb
In the LaRouche II case, I freely admitted sharin... Hell Freezes Over
[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='167835' dat... GlassBeadGame
You shared a computer with him at work, and you... Mackan
Do you think it was only you? They always did tha... The Adversary
[quote name='The Adversary' post='167754' date='S... Jon Awbrey
I wouldn't defend HK's editing, since he ... Lar
"SV wants a reevaluation of her conflicts o... Somey Kato, you need to stop posting here without checki... Kato
This latest "enemy's enemy" meme i... Hell Freezes Over
This latest "enemy's enemy" meme is... The Joy
[quote name='Somey' post='167678' date='Sun 12th ... Hell Freezes Over
I Googled "Eurasian Land Bridge" and fo... The Joy
[quote name='The Joy' post='167690' date='Sun 12t... Jon Awbrey
When Jon says there are no Wikipedia policies, I ... Herschelkrustofsky
I notice that Pro-LaRouche editors [url=http://en... Hell Freezes Over
SV's reaction to Dking's excesses was to ... CharlotteWebb My best guess is that continued exposure to the da... dtobias
and the Beatles, generals of a literal "Brit... LessHorrid vanU
and the Beatles, generals of a literal "Bri... Sarcasticidealist Luckily the Americans responded with the clean cut... dtobias
this dog won't hunt either
I don't thin... GlassBeadGame
[quote name='Herschelkrustofsky' post='167623' da... Jon Awbrey I have about as much interest in Lyndon LaRouche a... dtobias
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She's playin... Heat Now this isn't fair. Hell promised to answer m... Somey Now this isn't fair. Hell promised to answer m... The Adversary
I wouldn't defend HK's editing, since he ... Heat What I don't understand HK is why, given the n... Herschelkrustofsky Your logic is plausible, but your conclusions are ... Jon Awbrey
Your logic is plausible, but your conclusions are... Somey Quite so. However, I must correct my earlier post ... Kato
Quite so. However, I must correct my earlier post... Jon Awbrey
[quote name='Somey' post='167935' date='Mon 13th ... Herschelkrustofsky Revisiting all this history has made me nostalgic.... Rhindle Ok, let's see if I have this straight.
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Cberlet is praised by "the Cabal" for k... Herschelkrustofsky
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[quote name='Somey' post='168100' date='Tue 14th ... CharlotteWebb All this talk of cocaine, gays, and baseball bats ... the fieryangel
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[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='168243' dat... Heat
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[quote name='Hell Freezes Over' post='168262' dat... Sarcasticidealist "NPOV" is supposed to include all positi... the fieryangel
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I don't know enough to be able to answer, exc... Jon Awbrey
I'll say it for you: this article is misleadi... Newyorkbrad
except in the article about the "Theory that... dtobias
[quote name='the fieryangel' post='168280' date='... Hell Freezes Over
"NPOV" is supposed to include all posit... Hell Freezes Over
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The question is would Britannica allow someone w... Jon Awbrey
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Of all the Whopping Idiocies in Wikiputia one of... Kato The main things I'm getting from this thread a... Cla68
The main things I'm getting from this thread ... Hell Freezes Over
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2. Admin tools were used on those articles by adm... Heat
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[quote name='Heat' post='168490' date='Wed 15th A... Heat [quote name='dtobias' post='168332' date='Wed 15th... Kato
But with LaRouche, you want the experts topic-ban... Random832 But with LaRouche, you want the experts topic-bann... Cla68
But with LaRouche, you want the experts topic-ban... Heat
[quote name='Random832' post='168346' date='Wed 1... Jon Awbrey
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I'd say that the next step is, how can Wikip... Cla68
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Please note that Ms. Hell is using the Berlet web... Jon Awbrey
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Please note that Ms. Hell is using the Berlet web... Herschelkrustofsky
Please note that Ms. Hell is using the Berlet we... Herschelkrustofsky I posted that for the benefit of my esteemed colle... Moulton She's quite good at pushing your angry buttons... Jon Awbrey So here comes Hell Freezes Over, acting like every... The Joy 2. Admin tools were used on those articles by admi... Herschelkrustofsky
[quote=Hell Freezes Over]2. Admin tools were used... Newyorkbrad
Technically, the rules permit involved admins to ... Jon Awbrey
[quote name='Herschelkrustofsky' post='168416' da... Newyorkbrad
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[quote name='Jon Awbrey' post='168443' date='Wed ... Newyorkbrad
[quote name='Jon Awbrey' post='168443' date='Wed... Noroton
Because decoding many of Jon's other posts re... dtobias
Because decoding many of Jon's other posts re... Heat
Because decoding many of Jon's other posts r... The Joy Through me you pass into the city of woe:
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Dante's Inferno: Canto III
I'm in Dan T... Herschelkrustofsky By remarkable coincidence, SV is doing a reprise o... CharlotteWebb But, like... I thought Baykal was too deep to buil... Cla68
By remarkable coincidence, SV is doing a reprise ... CharlotteWebb
Hmm... somehow I doubt he is in a position to gra... Herschelkrustofsky
Anyway, SV and Will really don't seem to like... Cla68
[quote name='Cla68' post='179629' date='Sun 21st ... Herschelkrustofsky
What's the correct name for LaRouche's br... CharlotteWebb
Who is NE2? [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.... Cla68
[quote name='Cla68' post='179665' date='Sun 21st ... Herschelkrustofsky Here's a link to a relatively detailed map, th... Kato
Here's a link to a relatively detailed map, t... Somey Not me, Hersch. That was Somey who likely knows mo... Herschelkrustofsky
[quote name='Kato' post='179698' date='Sun 21st J... Random832 So, your argument is that this photo, from the LaR... CharlotteWebb
SlimVirgin & Co. probably want folks to belie... Achromatic
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National Geographic did one of their neat graphic... GlassBeadGame
I mean unless all the wine-drinkers live in coa... Herschelkrustofsky
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I'd be more convinced of your "n... It's the blimp, Frank
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I'd be more convinced of your ... dogbiscuit
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[quote name='It's the blimp, Frank' post='179... It's the blimp, Frank I dunno. My hypothesis could be wrong. Or maybe in...
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