NoCal100 may have the dubious distinction of having two separate accounts banned in the same ArbCom case, after having "vanished" in a prior case. His first, as far as I can tell, account was Isarig (I'll leave what that stands for unsaid, but it will get obvious in a bit). He has, for as long as he has been active on WP, had as his overarching goal, to denigrate Palestinians and harass anybody who gets in his way. His prime target has been Tiamut, a Palestinian woman in Nazareth.

Among NoCal's sock puppets are AgEng, an account whose primary purpose was to create a biography on one Yoav Sarig. Other accounts include Canadian Monkey, the other party to the same ArbCom case that saw NoCal topic banned (West Bank/Judea and Samaria).

None of this is all that unusual, lots of people sock, but where this gets surreal, at least for me, is how this twat of a man can, with a parade of socks that are evading bans, demand that others who violate the rules be punished with a firm hand. His most recent IP sock (71.204.165.25) has in the past months demanded that Bless sins and Vice Regent be blocked as sockpuppets (here) despite even Jayjg's acceptance that they not be, participated in another SPI (here) and is now arguing that his long-time target be blocked for edit-warring (permalink). He used two separate socks to argue that an editor whose only block was placed at their own request not be allowed to edit as an IP or even as an account after that block was lifted, and he was able to get FT2 to back him on this, even though FT2 was aware that he was a banned sockpuppet arguing that an IP of an unblocked account was a sockpuppet that should be blocked (see here and here

All of this showcases several of the problems with WP and topics as controversial as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The truly dedicated accounts will return, again and again, and cause the same problems, again and again. Others with even a touch of dignity and self-respect, like the inimitable G-Dett, will not. So instead of a writer whose only actual activity in the topic area was to attempt to clear the most ridiculous garbage, we are left with a never ending parade of Isarig socks. Why this is so difficult to deal with is beyond me. Why this IP is allowed to continue his years long harassment of Tiamut is also something that I cannot explain.

I am not sure why I am writing this as it is clear, or rather should be clear, that nothing ever gets accomplished on Wikipedia. That those who play the game well will always beat those that actually try to write an encyclopedia. But this really is absurd.

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