Mark Devlin and Linda Mack, ...Brandt can relate Options

[Piperdown]

try googling Mark Devlin.

CEO (I think that means head real-life editor) of an apparently significant publication in Japan.

This pops up.

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:NqOBs...User:Sparkzilla

Oh look, that's not very nice to read about Mark. I wonder what such a person must have done to get "banned" from one of fist websites to show up on a google search for anything.

Well, what he did was crisscross paths with Queen Slimmy.

He lost of course.

Now Mark was outed for COI. I have no problem with that. I pursued many a COI abuser myself in my salad days on the WP.

But what Marky did even after his outing (which was carried out in full gore on WP, a fate not even allowed off-WP to those of the INNER SANCTUM (bold, deep throaty booming voiceover there) was what his reall offence was.

He dared crisscross She Whose WikiActs Dare Not Speak Its Name.

Mr Brandt, I think you could appreciate the circumstances surrouding the fate of Mr Devlin, no? He did fade away into that rising sun. For now. But I wonder when his reliable source publication will chime in on their experiences with undercover slimmy and her closet of COI skeletons?

This just in: Good news for Linda, Devlin is no longer a "reliable source". He sold out to a friend, and didn't even publish an "Oh My!" about his WikiDays. Yet. Maybe that's why he shut up after being shut up by WP so as to not raise any stinks while selling the goods. Interesting bio and backstory about this former wikipedian, who wasn't protected by his fellow wikipedians. Maybe if he was a PETA meatpuppet he would have fared better.

http://blog.crisscross.com/





Edited: link changed to show google cache version

This post has been edited by Piperdown: Sat 20th October 2007, 4:06am

[Jonny Cache]

I'm not seeing whatever it is you're seeing at that location.

Excerpt would be nice if it's still there.

Jonny

[Piperdown]

I'm not seeing whatever it is you're seeing at that location.

Excerpt would be nice if it's still there.

Jonny

My bad - try the google cache, jonny !

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:NqOBs...User:Sparkzilla

[Jonny Cache]

Raw Text Against The Day When The Cache Disappears —

User:Sparkzilla

This user has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia.

(see: block log • contributions • deleted contributions • page moves • current autoblocks)

This user lives in Japan.

This user is a participant of WikiProject Japan.

Hi, I'm Mark Devlin, CEO of Crisscross, which publishes Metropolis (Japan's largest circulation English magazine), Japan Today (the largest news and discussion site about Japan in the world) and Crisscross, a social network. I came to Japan in 1989 from Scotland, and live close to Omotesando, Tokyo. I studied Production Engineering and Management at Strathclyde University, Glasgow.

I have been editing Wikipedia since 2005 [1]. Some highlights …

Started with the little-known fact that Yoko Ono co-wrote (or at least largely inspired) Imagine
Did quite a bit of work on Nova (English school in Japan) even though I have no business or personal connection with them whatsoever. I was tired of seeing teachers adding unsourced information and rumors to the page.

Had some vigorous debate about Richard Gere while my TV wasn't working for a few weeks.. I am still flumoxed by why every Gere biography mentions the ad he took out to defend his marriage to Cindy Crawford, but that some editors here will not allow the ad to be mentioned due to concerns of sensitivity. As a result I have ongoing concerns about the definition of terms such as "senstitivity" in WP:BLP policy. Unfortunately, some editors take Wikipedia too personally.

Now that I think of it, I also did quite a few edits on Hockey Stick graph, which is a scam perpetrated by some climate scientists to make it appear that we are headed for catastrophe.

Created Kyōgaku no Gaijin Hanzai Ura File — Gaijin Hanzai Hakusho 2007

WP:COI policy does not disallow me from editing articles that I am close to. Invoking my conflicts of interests is not a way to force poorly sourced material into articles, nor to to disallow properly sourced material (including my own cited work), force POV, or as an excuse for personal attacks. Discuss the article, the sources, the notability, not the editor.

Defended Crisscross and Metropolis articles from vandalism and poorly sourced claims. My edits to Crisscross and Metropolis have been checked for conflicts of interest and found acceptable. Admin Mangouice said, "I feel his behavior on the central articles was not so problematic, because he's trying to follow policy. I really don't think the removal of negative information was inappropriate: the negative information was out of balance and not well sourced in any of the cases. Generally speaking, as long as they stick to policy, people are allowed to edit with a conflict".

Had much discussion about an editorial in Metropolis that was critical of National Union of General Workers. Although Metropolis has also published items promoting the Union, I thought it was an interesting counterpoint. Following the result of an RFC [2] the editorial was removed as a source because the person who wrote the article was not notable. Fair enough.

Please feel free to contact me directly from my blog [3].

Source

No, the other cache —

Jonny

This post has been edited by Jonny Cache: Sun 21st October 2007, 12:00am

[LessHorrid vanU]

I took Sparkzilla's side on the Richard Gere debate; I argued that paying for an advert in the major newspaper of record in the United Kingdom attesting to the success of your marriage is of itself a notable event (any precedents? Nobody could name one), notwithstanding that Gere and Crawford admitted that its genesis was a French periodical inferring it a marriage of convenience to deflect attention from both parties preference for relations within their own sex group. The BLP concept of sensitivity was hijacked to remove reference to the fact of the publication, let alone the purported reasons. Sparkzilla and I provided all sorts of links and references to prove our contention, to no avail. When I saw that there was no likelihood of the zealots being convinced of the strength of our arguments I withdrew from the discussion, and subsequently my interaction with Sparkzilla ended.

I found him to be fair-minded and passionate about the things he cared about.