User:Erik says on ANI that the
wrong person is being intimidated. This is curious in light of the fact that User:Erik posted info on his user page on the 23rd and then deleted it on the 24th. Both of these edits amounted to pinning a target on Erik Kraft's back. Why did he do this? Is User:Erik just stupid, or is he also malicious?
Something is not right here, to say the least.
Erik Kraft, the university librarian based in Chicago, is all over the web. He knows a lot about web design and books. If you try to find any evidence that he cares at all about films or cared at all about editing Wikipedia before a few days ago, then you won't find anything. It doesn't take that long for a computer geek to figure out how to edit Wikipedia, and I discount the claim that his recent competent Wikipedia edits are evidence that User:Erik and Erik Kraft are the same person.
User:Erik must watch at least two movies a day. He has thousands of edits on Wikipedia about films. If you look for any evidence that he has web design skills or interests, or works as a librarian, or has ever read a book, you won't find anything.
I could easily have missed something, and hope someone can find anything I missed. It looks to me like User:Erik pulled a fast one, and also added a couple dozen edits to Murphy's bio in the last couple of days since taking down the photo. This smacks of bad faith, since he has known for years that Murphy doesn't want that bio. It's the old Wikipediot game of claiming that some BLP victim is notable, and assuming that this confers anonymous editors with automatic rights which overrule the BLP victim's rights. Wikipedia needs a slogan — how about "Let's be evil" !
User:Erik is acting like a teenager. I cannot believe he's Erik Kraft, 33 years old with a Masters degree and a real job, plus a web design business on the side. Now if he is 24 years old and lives in his mother's basement, and spends money on DVD rentals and purchases — now that's something I can believe.