QUOTE(Lar @ Thu 10th September 2009, 9:27pm)
methinks thou doth protest too much. (IMG:
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You're usually so proud of your socks and stunts and suchlike that you'll forgive me, I'm sure. I can't be arsed to actually keep a scorecard, mind you.
You misuse that phrase (Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–230). It means that someone who is telling the truth will so rather plainly and shortly. Liars go on rather more. I simply said (following Lar's allegation) that these were not my socks.
As Thatcher has observed, my socks come with a label. They are also a matter of principle. I strongly disapprove of abusive socking, as Lar should know.
Smalbones comments at ANI are fair and to the point.
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It’s of course fairly difficult to discuss an editor who writes 2+ autobiographies without getting close to outing. Benjiboi says that he was outed by Wikireview on Sept. 5. It looks to me that he was apparently outed by his supporters and fellow community members on Sept. 5. [35] (and following at the same AfD)
The same material also appeared much earlier at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ Pusspuss
I don’t think that it’s necessary to discuss this as “outing†– it’s clear that the “3 people†involved are quite close, know each other very well, and work together. All we need to talk about is the obvious COI.
It‘s clear that Benjiboi has been engaging in COI edits right from the beginning, when he was essentially an SPA. [36]
Everything he has been doing recently has become controversial and disruptive. For example, see this discussion of his plagiarism [37]
Also see the edit war he was involved in today starting at [38] He spent considerable time above arguing about WP:PAID, where I have edited a bit, and I take his remarks as being aimed at me. Please notice that nobody else has mentioned this topic in this thread until he did. My complaint about Benjiboi has only been that he constantly reverted every edit I made at WP:PAID. It is summarized here Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Benjiboi#Sorry_if_this_wasn.27t_clear
When he put forth the bizarre position that Paid editors did not have a conflict of interest editing a proposed policy on paid editing. User:Will Beback and User:TeaDrinker asked point blank whether he had a COI by being a paid editor. Benjiboi refused to even accept the relevance of the question. Just today, he finally admitted that he is a paid editor. [39]
So what to do about an editor who blatantly disregards WP:COI and other Wikipedia rules like WP:POV and WP:RS and is disruptive with every edit? I think he has offered ANI a choice by returning to edit Wikipedia – either you accept his editing as OK, or you block or ban him.
I don’t think the larger community will accept his editing as being OK. This topic will come up again with every controversial edit that he makes.
Can he be blocked? Well, you folks know the rules better than I do, but certainly other editors must have been blocked for offenses less serious than writing 2+ apparent autobiographies and !voting at the AfDs of those apparent autobiographies. Smallbones (talk) 19:27, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
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