Well golly, try to help highlight Weiss's own lecturing endeavors on his wonderful results from weight loss surgery, which he and major media sources include on their websites as 1 of most important things about him, and try and include it in his article, and....it gets turned around to be a personal attack on "his weight" in a "I'm a victim of WR" passion play. Sure, maybe some people have made fun on it on Wikipedia Review, but its a barren place inhabited by all sorts of evil.
What he really objected to is the start of a "Personal life" section (with a positive mention about his successful battle against weightloss with surgery, which he gets paid to speak about, and so is a notable part of his biography). Virtually every BLP I edit has a "Personal Life" section. As long as its contents are sourced and not controversial, and not about yourself, apparently. Otherwise it's fair game to edit in exact wedding dates of relatively obscure private people, names of non-notable family members, high school football exploits of siblings, etc.
If you were safeguarding your BLP with a hairtrigger revert finger for years, would you want a "Personal life" can of worms section opened up? Imagine what could go on there in between reverts. What next, we have to edit out Al Roker's weightloss? Weiss did good. He lectures on it. That and the Klebnikov thing are both fine, outstanding items for a "personal life" section. You'd think. Although I can't find any actual action on his part in Project Klebnikov.
And please CU me again, Gary and "Mongo", whose mongoness gets worse with age. It's been done every other month lately. You won't find anything fun except my recent battle to document the epic Joe Kapp - Al Mosca battle, only to be undermined by a Canadian Football League homemade online encyclopedia spammer.
I'd let Gary keep on editing as Scotty Buurrrg (say it like John Houseman, it will make his edits funnier to read during your paper chase). His autobiography, OK, topicockblock him for being an idiot about it, and not helpful at all. He surely has a sleeper sockfarm ready to go for the Great Randian Push of 2012. Don't fight it, embrace Gary. He is Wikipedia. Plus he's older than 18, been published despite overcoming a severely challenged writing talent, and knows how to game WP like no one's business by now. Wikipedia is an even worse wild west of BLP abuse than ever. There's no point in trying to keeping pissing into a hurricane. The system is decaying, not improving. Readers, pray you don't become "notable".
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