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> Linda Mack, Is she "notable" yet?
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 2:17am
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So, it occurs to me that our mysterious [[Linda Mack]] easily passes notability requirements. Why isn't this an article? Public journalist, multiple mentions in books, part of a major historical event (Pan Am 103).
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 2:41am
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Linda Mack can't be an article because Wikipedia makes the rules up as they go along.

On second thought, we can make articles on her on non-english wikipedia portals. And we should!!!!!!

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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 2:46am
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QUOTE(LamontStormstar @ Wed 1st August 2007, 7:41pm) *

Linda Mack can't be an article because Wikipedia makes the rules up as they go along.

On second thought, we can make articles on her on non-english wikipedia portals. And we should!!!!!!


I don't think Mack is notable, except for her alleged shenanigans as SlimVirgin. She spent a few months as a new researcher, published one article and vanished. Posting an article gives the nutter more credit than she deserves.
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 3:23am
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You really don't want to give her more of a swelled head than she already has...
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 9:34am
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Does Linda Mack warrant an article? Possibly not. But does Linda Mack controversy warrant an article? Probably. It is right now somewhere between the Snowspinner controversy and the Essjay controversy in terms of coverage, but ahead of both in terms of importance. I think that you could argue a case for it.

However, if anyone tried to create an article now, it'd just be used as a tool to encourage a greater cover up. Wait for the right time, and the appropriate people will make one anyway. Wait until Wikipedia Bureaucrats decide to make it.
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 1:20pm
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Can we start compiling everything that meets RS/V in this thread?
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 1:30pm
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Notice how some(bod)y's "redaction" of the topic title has changed the sense of the thread into something that was not intended. The lead author was talking about Linda Mack in her own right and not about SlimVirgin.

Once again, some(bod)y has exceeded the limits of moderation and arrogated himself to Editor in Chief.

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QUOTE(Jonny Cache @ Thu 2nd August 2007, 6:30am) *

Notice how some(bod)y's "redaction" of the topic title has changed the sense of the thread into something that was not intended. The lead author was talking about Linda Mack in her own right and not about SlimVirgin.

Once again, some(bod)y has exceeded the limits of moderation and arrogated himself to Editor in Chief.

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Agreed here, please rename the thread back to [[Linda Mack]] as it was originally created. "Linda Mack", the person, is notable, and in the context of this website or Wikipedia no longer can claim any rights to privacy.

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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 3:28pm
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Greetings to everyone,

I have updated my website, "Chip Berlet, SlimVirgin, and Wikipedia," to include a summary of the latest revelations. I welcome correspondence from WR members about important items that ought to be included in the article (use the mail link on the site.) The Ohmynews article quotes from mine, without attribution. And, for a touch of comedy, SlimVirgin thinks that Nobs01 wrote my article. She is mistaken.
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 3:38pm
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Thanks Chip. We are aware of your site and have linked to it many times. I also linked to it in the new blog entry, which you may want to read: http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070802/c...candal/#more-16

Your website is being viewed quite a lot at the moment.
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 3:43pm
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This is Chip Berlet? hello!
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 4:00pm
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Uh, I don't think that's Chip Berlet...
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 4:04pm
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QUOTE(Somey @ Thu 2nd August 2007, 9:00am) *

Uh, I don't think that's Chip Berlet...



Oh, OK. Would you mind renaming this thread back to the original title of:

[[Linda Mack]]

?
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 4:09pm
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Okay sorry. So someone else wrote about Chip Berlet and SlimVirgin? Sorry. I guess I didn't actually read that article lol.
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 4:20pm
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QUOTE(Infoboy @ Thu 2nd August 2007, 11:04am) *
Oh, OK. Would you mind renaming this thread back to the original title of:

[[Linda Mack]] ... ?

Yes I would, actually. One of the other moderators can if they want to, but I personally would like to hold the line at thread titles, which can appear on the home page of the website. At this point I don't suppose there's anything to be done about the content of individual posts, of course... But as long as there's a chance that this is really causing some degree of psychological harm to the person in question, I'm probably going to maintain that position.

If there's a compromise to be reached here, feel free to suggest it - otherwise, ask someone else, OK?

And Blissy already knows that if he wants to be a moderator here, he only has to ask...
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 9:14pm
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Maybe we can put an article on Wikinfo and see if anyone reacts.
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 9:57pm
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Hey...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...da_Mack_Schloff

WTF? Deleted the day AFTER Slashdot hit. Even better, Googling reveals ties between Ms. Schloff and Alberta.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060913000000/...da_Mack_Schloff

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:yxIEnF...clnk&cd=1&gl=us

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She was part-time faculty at Macalester_College in 1998. http://webdb.kings.cam.ac.uk/nonresidents/...ry/fulllist.php


And now Linda Mack Schloff is scrubbed from there, too!

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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 10:04pm
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Linda Mack Schloff was never in that list, just Linda Mack.
I have an archived copy in front of me and there's only one "Linda Mack".
Linda Mack Schloff is not Linda Mack or SlimVirgin.
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So it's just a coincidence then that JzG nuked the article within 24 hours of the Slashdot story? Keep in mind that Linda graduated from Kings College at Cambridge in 1984. Schloff could well be a married name.
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post Thu 2nd August 2007, 10:31pm
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For the last time, hopefully, Linda Mack Schloff is not SlimVirgin. Look at the second picture on this page where it says "Linda Schloff (left)."

We went through all of this many months ago, but thanks to Somey I cannot even find that thread now.

SlimVirgin was born in 1961, plus or minus a year or two. This is from a Lockerbie book that gives her age as 27 in 1988 or so. Linda Schloff is her mid-sixties, I believe.

Good grief, Somey, get on the stick and undo those redactions. I'm starting to feel like a broken record. [Refers to vinyl recordings, which spun on things called turntables that had a needle or stylus, and might skip back and repeat passages due to a scratch on the surface of the vinyl (circa 1970s). Also refers to wacky Wikipedia Review, which redacted names and caused members to forget old solutions that had been resolved months earlier, but then were obfuscated by Somey (circa 2007).]
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