QUOTE(lonza leggiera @ Fri 30th December 2011, 8:16am)
Application withdrawn in response to
a "threat" made against Mr Van H and his civil partner.
Van Haeften says:
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I recommend careful scrutiny of the key accounts involved in those Wikipedia Review posts and their tag-team contribution patterns which harass, distort the facts and manipulate Wikimedia Commons consensus process. Just because allegations have been posted off-wiki or multiple times on-wiki does not turn them into "facts", as a community we should be strongly evidence based and as others have pointed out here, speculation and rumour is not evidence.
I think the best evidence is Van Haeften's refusal to clearly concede or deny whether the subject of the bondage photographs is himself. If he would only go on record as saying he is
not the subject of the photographs, then that would bring clarity to the issue, and perhaps the Clarity Digital Group (Examiner.com) could be sued for alleging that Van Haeften was the subject of the photos. Van Haeften and his civil partner could then use the hefty settlement award to donate a large sum to Wikimedia UK, so that this proud and accomplished organization might live on in perpetuity off of an annual endowment stipend.
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