Shankbone tries to intimidate Seth Finkelstein, AS IF Options

[The Joy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Set...ict-of-Interest

David Shankbone has accused journalist Seth Finkelstein of having a conflict of interest in reporting on Wikipedia and Jimbo Wales. According to Shankbone, Seth has a negative bias towards Wikipedia. Shankbone is even planning on contacting other journalists to report Seth's "conflict of interest."

Shankbone's gone to new lows.

[The Wales Hunter]

Shankbone is the personification of something, yet I don't know what.

He returned from his trip to the Middle East with new pictures. I seem to recall he altered the Israeli-Palestinian Relations article (or something similar) to include a picture of Palestinian kids playing with toy guns!

He has written about how he was overcome by the urge to photograph a homeless woman changing her tampon on the street.

He used the clique/cabal/whatever to allow him to include his fake name on every image he files.

He added a picture of a male gay porn star with his hand wrapped around his penis, while waving, to the "wave" category or similar.

The list goes on and on. He's almost daring somebody to go through and find all the diffs and publish something about him...but perhaps that what he wants.

[Somey]

The list goes on and on. He's almost daring somebody to go through and find all the diffs and publish something about him...but perhaps that what he wants.

No question about that. And it's more than a little likely that he's trying to get Seth himself to write something about him - presumably he's been looking at the page-referrer stats from his blog, and has decided he's not getting enough "juice" from Encyclopedia Dramatica alone.

What's guardian.co.uk's Alexa ranking these days? Let me check... hey, 319, at this particular moment at least! That could be worth a few extra clicks.

[The Wales Hunter]

The list goes on and on. He's almost daring somebody to go through and find all the diffs and publish something about him...but perhaps that what he wants.

No question about that. And it's more than a little likely that he's trying to get Seth himself to write something about him - presumably he's been looking at the page-referrer stats from his blog, and has decided he's not getting enough "juice" from Encyclopedia Dramatica alone.

What's guardian.co.uk's Alexa ranking these days? Let me check... hey, 319, at this particular moment at least! That could be worth a few extra clicks.

It would be deliciously ironic if somebody as apparently rapidly pro-Israeli as Shankbone were to use the Guardian for anything other than toilet paper.

If he were just using Wikipedia to self-publicise, I'd almost want to salute him. But it's not his actual name being publicised.

Anyway, this picture always gives me a chuckle. How did he manage to find the only photographer with less technical abilities than himself? And how are his "Shankbone meets and greets" images even useful?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...himon_Peres.jpg

In all seriousness, it is a worry as an image can create a lasting impression in the fraction of the time it takes to read a sentence of text.

[CharlotteWebb]

Anyway, this picture always gives me a chuckle. How did he manage to find the only photographer with less technical abilities than himself? And how are his "Shankbone meets and greets" images even useful?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...himon_Peres.jpg

It's not that bad, really. You have to remember most people will only see it at thumbnail size.

Either way you can always crop out the part you don't want to use. The image placeholder tags have yielded a lot of pictures that are basically "me_and_[somebody famous].jpg". In some ways this makes noob-uploaders easier to trust, especially if they co-star in more than one photo.

Why doesn't Shankbone have an article on WP? I'm surprised he hasn't written it himself (or has it been purged)?

Well, you could write one. Shankers might not mind it actually.