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> An uncharacteristic blunder, in the heat of the moment, Slim drops her guard
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The normal ownership of the LaRouche articles by Slim and Will Beback has undergone an unusual degree of scrutiny lately. Slim 'n' Will did manage to ban two interlopers, but others remain who are editing their articles and it is making them very cranky.

One of the controversies is whether LaRouche should be called an "economist" in the lede of Lyndon LaRouche (T-H-L-K-D). Both sides of this argument consider it to be a no-brainer. In hope of tilting things her way, Slim launched a RfC, which produced no consensus, and looked like this after a week. Then, suddenly, a flood of new "oppose" votes came in. Why? Well, it appears that SV posted a notice here, and here, and here, and last but not least, here -- obviously, if you want a neutral assessment of LaRouche as an economist, the very first place you would go would be the Fringe Theories Noticeboard.

Now, here we see Jayen drawing the conclusion from the above posts that Slim could be canvassing. This is complicated by the fact that each and every one of her multiply-posted solicitations contains a serious misstatement of the facts, what crude and uncouth persons might refer to as a "lie": she asserts that LaRouche "has never been employed or independently published as [an economist]." Now, Slim does this sort of thing a lot, but normally on matters that can't be checked for veracity. This one was an exception. Has she lost her touch?

BTW, this is adorable.
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I am dying to know what this was before it was oversighted. Cla68 refers to it on Will's talk page as a joke, evidently on the Fat Man's user talk page. It was evidently good enough to bring down the WikiWrath.
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QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Thu 24th March 2011, 2:43pm) *

I am dying to know what this was before it was oversighted. Cla68 refers to it on Will's talk page as a joke, evidently on the Fat Man's user talk page. It was evidently good enough to bring down the WikiWrath.


I believe it was admin deleted, not oversighted. It was from that episode a year ago when the Fat Man pulled off a brilliant troll on several of WP's most self-righteous admins by defending the BLP on John Bambenek, which was up for deletion for the upteenth time. When Will Beback justified deletion of the article, Fat Man told him that he (Will) didn't like Bambenek, "because he is a LaRouche supporter."
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QUOTE(Cla68 @ Thu 24th March 2011, 10:48pm) *

QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Thu 24th March 2011, 2:43pm) *

I am dying to know what this was before it was oversighted. Cla68 refers to it on Will's talk page as a joke, evidently on the Fat Man's user talk page. It was evidently good enough to bring down the WikiWrath.


I believe it was admin deleted, not oversighted. It was from that episode a year ago when the Fat Man pulled off a brilliant troll on several of WP's most self-righteous admins by defending the BLP on John Bambenek, which was up for deletion for the upteenth time. When Will Beback justified deletion of the article, Fat Man told him that he (Will) didn't like Bambenek, "because he is a LaRouche supporter."

I remember that one -- and Beback replied with "Huh?" Did they delete that just because you linked to it on a talk page?
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QUOTE(It's the blimp, Frank @ Fri 25th March 2011, 1:40am) *

QUOTE(Cla68 @ Thu 24th March 2011, 10:48pm) *

QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Thu 24th March 2011, 2:43pm) *

I am dying to know what this was before it was oversighted. Cla68 refers to it on Will's talk page as a joke, evidently on the Fat Man's user talk page. It was evidently good enough to bring down the WikiWrath.


I believe it was admin deleted, not oversighted. It was from that episode a year ago when the Fat Man pulled off a brilliant troll on several of WP's most self-righteous admins by defending the BLP on John Bambenek, which was up for deletion for the upteenth time. When Will Beback justified deletion of the article, Fat Man told him that he (Will) didn't like Bambenek, "because he is a LaRouche supporter."

I remember that one -- and Beback replied with "Huh?" Did they delete that just because you linked to it on a talk page?


After I linked to it, Will nominated it for speedy deletion, the rationale being that it was the talk page of a deleted user account page.
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It's the blimp, Frank   Yuh think?  


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