Statement from Jimbo re. Bauder/Forrester, From around Jan. 2006 ArbCom Elections Options

[C H]

I recall Jimbo saying that any arbcom election process that failed to elect James Forrester or Fred Bauder was broken. It was around the time of the January 2006 election, where James and Fred had seemingly failed in their reelection bids. Shortly thereafter, Jimbo expanded the arbcom by 3 members, adding Forrester, Bauder and JayJG. Can anyone help me find the quote? It was either on-wiki or on the mailing list.

[Viridae]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Roy...tstrap_meet.jpg
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More photos on Arkaday's site:

http://arkady.fotopic.net/c777773.html

Just noticed the anti Scientology tshirt on the left.

[Kelly Martin]

Just noticed the anti Scientology tshirt on the left.

Well, of course. That's a significant aspect of David Gerard's identity.

[Cedric]

Just noticed the anti Scientology tshirt on the left.

Well, of course. That's a significant aspect of David Gerard's identity.

Hmmm. I noticed that WP does gets cited a lot over at Operation Clambake. I seriously wonder if Andreas Heldal-Lund (who has his own BLP, incidently) has any idea of all of the uncomfortable parallels between CO$ and WP. Not that wikipediots are quite as vicious as what scientos can be (yet).

[Kelly Martin]

Hmmm. I noticed that WP does gets cited a lot over at Operation Clambake. I seriously wonder if Andreas Heldal-Lund (who has his own BLP, incidently) has any idea of all of the uncomfortable parallels between CO$ and WP. Not that wikipediots are quite as vicious as what scientos can be (yet).

Since the same people who maintain Operation Clambake also wrote (and actively "own") virtually all of Wikipedia's content about Scientology, the frequent citation is not surprising. One of David Gerard's ongoing duties at Wikipedia is to ensure that anybody he identifies as a Scientologist is stalked and harassed off of the site with all deliberate haste.

It has long been observed that the anti-Scientologists are nearly as cultish as the Scientologists they oppose. This is probably, in part, because many of them are ex-Scientologists, and while they've been cured of Scientology specifically, they are not cured of their susceptibility to cultishness in general, and so readily succumb to the next cult they wander into, be it AntiScientologism, or Wikipedia.

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