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Let's take a look at this new arbitrator. I now know his real name and identity, which are not particularly relevant here.

What is relevant is his age - born November 1990, which means he was 15 when he first joined Wikipedia, and 17 when he became an administrator at his second attempt. An extraordinarily rapid rise to power, now a member of the Arbitration committee having just turned 21.

Joining in early 2006, he showed a desire to become an administrator immediately, saying to Flo Knight "I was brought up in a rough part of Glasgow, Scotland I feel my knowledge of the Scottish delinquent personality would be of use as a 'Hall Monitor' http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=43600120, and then at editor review - "I think I may want Adminship, but I am worried I have been with Wikipedia for too short a time despite the fact that Adminship is the one thing I want most on Wikipedia! Please leave comments or advice about how I am doing, and whether or not I should go for Adminship. Also, if I did go for it would you honestly vote for me or not??? Thank you very much." http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=69211753

Shows commendable dedication to the cause by his 'vandal fighting'. "Your new Wikipediaholic Score First of all, how did your score climb SO QUICKLY? How is it even possible to score that high if you're not Jimbo Wales? By the way, you made some errors in the ranking, like labelling 2nd as 2st, 3rd as 3nd, and 4th as 4rd. I have fixed them. AstroHurricane001 22:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)"

Also shows commendable ambition in his attempts to climb the ranks.

December 27, 2006: adds himself http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=95877655 to the standby list for CheckUser clerks. Not yet granted.
December 29, 2006: requests http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Med...ons/Anthony_cfc to join the mediation committee. Denied.
December 31, 2006: requests http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?titl...93&oldid=503873 OTRS access. Not granted.
January 9, 2007: requests http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?titl...ev&oldid=509373 CheckUser access. Denied.
January 16, 2007: attempts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...uest_for_Access to gain access to the Bot Approvals Group. Denied.

In February, his first application for RfA was turned down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...hip/Anthony_cfc . The comments are highly intersesting. "An interesting note is that every one of the powers he's applied to is one that Essjay holds; this seems almost like a form of wiki-stalking. In short, I think Anthony cfc just wants any power he can possibly get, and that's never a good trait in administrators. I do not trust him to handle the tools properly. Ral315 (talk) 02:57, 9 February 2007 (UTC)"

Aso, in a bizarre request on another wiki in May 2007 http://wiki.editthis.info/Wiki/Special:Contributions/Shmm, he simultaneously joins and asks for administrator rights. He is turned down flat, although objects that "The fact I'm a Bureaucrat on a Wikimedia Foundation wiki, as well as the Developer for a private Wiki, surely seals the deal? --Shmm 17:26, 1 May 2007 (EDT)", adding "I have a sincere desire to protect this Wiki, as I have being protecting others of the Wikimedia Foundation --Shmm 15:17, 2 May 2007 (EDT)"

Is that true? Since that was before his second successful RfA, on what WMF wiki did he have Bureaucrat rights, in May 2007??

His user page talks about an interest in and knowledge of classical studies, but his main work on Wikipedia seems to have been 'gnoming'. His work on Good Articles is mostly minor changes to grammar (sometimes making it worse), or linking or applying templates or other inconsequential stuff. (I haven't checked that carefully, however, so take that with a grain of salt for now).

Is this the kind of arbitrator Wikipedia needs?

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Well the good news here is that I've finally shifted all that backlog of diverse duties we sock puppeteers living the life of riley off public funds somehow nevertheless seem to accumulate despite our best efforts to contract as much of it out as we possibly can, and I now have a whole week ahead of me to demonstrate to WR how a real expert in the field approaches her work (erm ... incidentally can someone PM me a pointer to Risker; I did get the dear old bat some time ago, but I've completely forgotten it now and also how I got there, somwehere in Canada and basically that's all that lingers - point being I'm beginning to rather strongly suspect for certain reasons it would be invidious to speculate upon at this moment in time that AGK is in fact a sock of Risker, the inner child struggling to get out as it were, and hence the sudden interest; well I've always thought that behind that innocent james blunt wouldn't come in my face deary me no look she so plausibly affects she is basically a very naughty lady indeed, no fool me with sheep's eyes pulling my woolies thank you).

Anyway, basically I've got as far as Anthony's next edit following his enterprising two minute Atkinson where he felt himself called out to deal with a critical situation that had developed at [[Limestone]] where someone had made the curious contribution

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fUCK OFF fUCKERS/ HOBO / FAG/ HOES


I mean god what do you do faced with something like that ... but our Anthony nevertheless finds it within himself to rise once more to the occasion ... he only just bleeding deletes it completely neutralised just like that as it had never been there if you know what I'm getting at there and calmly replaces it with

THIS IS A FINAL WARNING. IF YOU VANDALISE AGAIN YOU WILL BE BLOCKED.

Sincerly, (sic)

RC Patrol


JOBBY WELL DONE!!!! PHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW


(just to clarify - the incredulous JOBBY WELL DONE!!!! PHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW there comes from me and not Anthony).

Tomorrow, or possibly later on today depending how many kickings I'm signed on for today, I will analyse this in a little more detail, because as Karl Marx so famoulsy observed the child is father of the man, but for now the thinking must be, has got to be - how in fact does Anthony find these things in the first place, becauseI never have any luck. I mean, really, come the end of an evening and a stressful day kicking kicking kicking always having to fucking kick your way through life no fucking escape ever sort day we all get them come on don't pretend, I often think to myself it would be great fun to find something really disgusting on Wikipedia like that, perhaps savour it with a glass of full bodied Chianti and a leisurly two minute atkinson with loads of cream sauce the other hand, before kicking it into touch where it so richly deserves to rot in the gutter and then finding the fucking little cunt who wrote the filth in the first place and fucking well telling him in no uncertain terms how he can fucking expect his testicles to be relocated if he fucking keep on with his shit ... but I never do, that's the point, I mean the occasional reference to NAMBLA, but come on hand on heart who can honestly deny ever slipping in one of those themselves every now and then wikipedia being what it is. Course not, but the real thing ... no never, nooit, nunquam as they say in Syria. So how does he manage it? What's the secret?

That's what I'd really like to know!

PS. This is how the edit actually looked http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthonycfc_1.jpg. Can't promise it will stay up there, if not you can always use the diff to inspect it.

OMG (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) I've just realised I think that's only his own fucking template he's bleeding done there ("level 4"... phwaaaaw, will you just look at that) oh god oh god oh god I love him I love him I love him just to fleetingly hold his trembling anthony king safe and warm between my grateful thighs oh god that would be heaven and heaven the mountain trees stilled to silence as I blow his name from peak till peak oh joy oh joy oh joy the dear dear boy well I mean of course when he's like 21 NOT THEN BUT NOW come on what do think I am and since we are at it I'm a fucking woman as I have in fact have had numerous occasions to point out before in these blogs so don't you go trying to outpedo me as forums like WR always try to do grow up can't we just be serious for once in our lives?

And then there's the 13 March 2006 [[Carolina Panthers]] edit where AGK pretends to block the page with a template (right ... he's blocking an article so he says), announcing that offensive material has been included and this has been deleted and the whole article should be rewritten according to guidelines, but in fact deletes the whole article. An suspenseful atkinsonian two minutes later (phwaaaw) the edit is in fact reverted by Nakon, specialising at the time he seems in making wholesale reverts of vandalism, but there's no evidence of any interaction between AGK and Nakon, no evidence that it's some sort of training exercise in real life with REAL BULLETS UNDER LIVE FIRE (PHWAAAW), no rather, on the face of it, it seems to be Anthony in very good faith pretending to be an adminstrator or something pretending to block an article while deleting its entire contents. If there was any explanation forthcoming then it's been revision deleted and we are no the wise.

Dear boy! (yes, yes, I do understand it's suspect but I would just like point out that I'm a mature lady of a certain age whatever Risker might say who after all ought to know better, Risker I mean of course, and he himself is a strapping young lad of 21 and that I'm completely prepared to address all issues raised about it fully and frankly to set minds at rest). Thank You.

I'm going to though all these rather strange first year edits now before commenting further (don't want to hog the forum here ... heavens no). I can't get an IP address for him. That's so strange. He comes on to the project with some definite aims it seems of contributing to Scottish railway stations and things Scottish, presumably with the intention of creating some article starts as one normally does, but \i don't see any of those and i don't see any prior IP activity in those limited Scottish articles he does edit. In the meantime he engages in a series of what can only be described as fantasy edits involving the policing of Wikipedia.

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melloden   I think most kids on Wikipedia are like that. Some...  
Kelly Martin   I think it's interesting he was elected to the...  
that one guy   [quote name='melloden' post='292189' date='Sun 1s...  
melloden   [quote name='melloden' post='292189' date='Sun 1s...  
carbuncle   Posted without further comment. From AGK's re...  
Peter Damian   Seemed to have had a love affair with Essjay.  
Eppur si muove   Seemed to have had a love affair with Essjay. ...  
Kelly Martin   How do we know that AGK isn't, in fact, Essjay...  
TungstenCarbide   How do we know that AGK isn't, in fact, Essja...  
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A Horse With No Name   He's also spent a lot of time sucking up to Du...  
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melloden   A good example of a pure suck-up. Wikipedia DOES ...  
Cla68   A good example of a pure suck-up. Wikipedia DOES...  
Peter Damian   I don't understand how anyone can find WP par...  
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Fusion   I don't understand how anyone can find WP par...  
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Ottava   ......Or they just like correcting spelling erro...  
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Kelly Martin   Also, isn't it obvious that users interested i...  
gomi   It has long been Wikipedia policy that articles sh...  
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Detective   Can anyone point me to any academic research on u...  
FightingMac   ... Basically, these are people who don't hav...  
Shalom   AGK's old username is Anthony cfc. Who knows w...  
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mbz1   ... AGK is probably academically gifted too bec...  
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FightingMac   ... So, tarc, Gwen Gale is a good admin now, and ...  
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