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QUOTE(gomi @ Tue 6th March 2007, 7:25am) Mr. Brandt believes he is from Williamsburg, NY, USA, works in management, and is in his 40s.
I assume Brandt got the "works in management, and is in his 40s" info from Jay himself, as that was what he stated during arb.com elections, Jan. 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...didates_by_jgukBrandt states that Jay is from from Williamsburg, NY, USA(?). I don´t know where he got that from, but googeling brings: http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/App/TalkBack/C...3161625,00.html And very few on Wikipedia have been so careful covering their identity as Jay. You will be banned for just asking if he is payed to edit Wikipedia...no kidding. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/ph34r.gif)
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QUOTE(Heat @ Mon 5th March 2007, 11:31pm) Paid lobbyist? Who does he work for? What is his real name? What city is he posting from? Any clues?
My data suggest he works from his home, situated outside Toronto, Canada. Likely in the vicinity of Ajax. I'm 99% certain he made this "oops!" anon edit and quick revert back in 2005. The IP you see (69.196.8.45) seems to be unassigned currently, but as recently as a few months ago, it mapped to Thornhill, Ontario, a northern sector of Toronto. Then last year, Jayjg appears to have relocated east of the city.
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QUOTE(WordBomb @ Tue 6th March 2007, 8:31pm) QUOTE(Heat @ Mon 5th March 2007, 11:31pm) Paid lobbyist? Who does he work for? What is his real name? What city is he posting from? Any clues?
My data suggest he works from his home, situated outside Toronto, Canada. Likely in the vicinity of Ajax. I'm 99% certain he made this "oops!" anon edit and quick revert back in 2005. The IP you see (69.196.8.45) seems to be unassigned currently, but as recently as a few months ago, it mapped to Thornhill, Ontario, a northern sector of Toronto. Then last year, Jayjg appears to have relocated east of the city. I also had an inkling that he was based near Toronto, Canada. There were some other coincidences that suggested this, but there was no solid evidence. This post has been edited by anon1234:
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QUOTE(The Adversary @ Tue 6th March 2007, 9:22pm) quote: "I also had an inkling that he was based near Toronto, Canada. There were some other coincidences that suggested this, but there was no solid evidence." Links, please! IP address: 74.108.30.192. Reverse DNS: CPE000c4141a0d3-CM000a7369bd22.cpe.net.cable.rogers.comGeolocation: Toronto, Ontario. At first, I gave the odds of it being Jayjg's IP at roughly 2:1 in favor. The coincidences appeared meaningful but I came to doubt their validity after learning that Jayjg was "known" to be located in NYC. After learning that Jayjg himself is the only source of evidence of his linkage to NYC and that there are others who believe Jayjg is located in Toronto, Canada, I have renewed semi-confidence in my original suspicions. QUOTE(guy @ Tue 6th March 2007, 9:54pm) Last time I checked, he seems not to edit on the Jewish sabbath and festivals, so he's an orthodox Jew. A little sophisticated analysis should confirm which time zone he's in. I correlated that evidence some time ago and it fits with his being in the North American Eastern Time Zone (GMT-05:00.) There are many major cities in this time zone including both New York City and Toronto, Canada. UPDATE: If Jayjg has a dynamic IP then it is likely the suspected IP I listed above is of historical interest only as it isn't especially fresh.
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QUOTE(anon1234 @ Tue 6th March 2007, 4:11pm) Here is Jayjg's first few months on Wikipedia, its buried in the history of User_talk:Jayjg/Archive_8 for some reason. I don't see any clues to his identity though. On a side note, Danny's AOL ID is "LITTLE BOOTS". Just a friendly reminder, the point of the WR isn't to harass people.... it's for constructive discussion not a "I hate you so I'm going to harass you" forum. Harassing / the intent to harass Danny without disclosing your full identity is in violation of US Law (thanks Daniel for pointing that out). Danny isn't evil, he's a human being just like the rest of us..... please try and be nice. On the other hand, what is with the attempts to "track" people down. In the real world we call it stalking..... it's generally seen as a crime. Does it really matter if you know where a person lives or not? One can very easily use proxies to mask their location, it basically ruins geoIP as a detection method.
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QUOTE(guy @ Tue 6th March 2007, 5:54pm) QUOTE(WordBomb @ Tue 6th March 2007, 8:31pm) I'm 99% certain he made this "oops!" anon edit and quick revert back in 2005. He'd have deleted the talk page and restored it without that edit. Today, yes. But did he have that authority/audacity back in September of 2005?
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QUOTE(a view from the hive @ Wed 7th March 2007, 12:33am) Just a friendly reminder, the point of the WR isn't to harass people.... it's for constructive discussion not a "I hate you so I'm going to harass you" forum. Harassing / the intent to harass Danny without disclosing your full identity is in violation of US Law (thanks Daniel for pointing that out). Danny isn't evil, he's a human being just like the rest of us..... please try and be nice. I wasn't recommending that people actually contact Danny, let alone harass him. It was just something strange that popped out on the page. I have redacted it from my original comment, I suggest you do the same in your quotation of my original comment. QUOTE On the other hand, what is with the attempts to "track" people down. In the real world we call it stalking..... it's generally seen as a crime. Does it really matter if you know where a person lives or not? One can very easily use proxies to mask their location, it basically ruins geoIP as a detection method. There is a significant legal difference between uncovering someone identity and stalking. Jayjg is one of the few users whom we haven't yet identified. Jayjg himself engages in similar online investigations of mysterious identities that catch his attention: User:Jayjg/MysteryI can now add that someone pointed me to a third line of independent evidence that solidly links Jayjg to Toronto, Canada. This time the information is from early 2006. The IP is near identical to the one I gave above in that it geo-resolves to Toronto, Canada and it gives up in a R-DNS query an address that terminates in "*.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com."
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QUOTE(WordBomb @ Wed 7th March 2007, 12:37am) QUOTE(guy @ Tue 6th March 2007, 5:54pm) QUOTE(WordBomb @ Tue 6th March 2007, 8:31pm) I'm 99% certain he made this "oops!" anon edit and quick revert back in 2005. He'd have deleted the talk page and restored it without that edit. Today, yes. But did he have that authority/audacity back in September of 2005? Jayjg granted "checkuser" rights: 10:10, 12 November 2005 Datrio (Talk | contribs) changed group membership for User:Jayjg@enwiki from sysop to sysop, checkuserJayjg granted "oversight" rights: 13:34, 29 May 2006 Oscar (Talk | contribs) changed group membership for User:Jayjg@enwiki from checkuser, sysop to checkuser, sysop, oversightThis post has been edited by anon1234:
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QUOTE(a view from the hive @ Tue 6th March 2007, 6:33pm) Just a friendly reminder, the point of the WR isn't to harass people.... Just what is the point of WR, anyway? I was under the impression it existed just to feed me easy straight lines, but now I'm not so sure anymore... QUOTE it's for constructive discussion not a "I hate you so I'm going to harass you" forum. Harassing / the intent to harass Danny without disclosing your full identity is in violation of US Law... On the other hand, what is with the attempts to "track" people down. In the real world we call it stalking..... it's generally seen as a crime... I'm afraid the insistence on calling it "stalking" and "harassment" probably just makes it worse, though. Once you've accused your opponent of the worst thing he's ever likely to do, what does he have to lose by actually doing it? Remember, we don't allow posting of street addresses, phone numbers, private e-mail addresses, things of that nature. (Don't all try it at once...) And please refer to this post and maybe this one, as I don't care to go over it again at the moment. QUOTE Does it really matter if you know where a person lives or not? One can very easily use proxies to mask their location, it basically ruins geoIP as a detection method. In Jayjg's case, it probably doesn't matter. Frankly, I doubt we'll ever figure out who he is unless he tells us. He's too careful... He's like a ghost, slipping in and out of the shadows with no more footprint than a wisp of smoke... And you're right, ever since the whole Hivemind thing started, there's probably at least a dozen private co-located proxy machines out there for folks like Slimmy and Jayjg to remote into, not associated with any domain or DNS entity whatsoever, just sitting there in enormous virtual server farms all over the globe - all expertly configured for maximum anonymity protection. (Pretty cool, actually!) QUOTE(anon1234 @ Tue 6th March 2007, 6:56pm) Jayjg is one of the few users whom we haven't yet identified. Jayjg himself engages in similar online investigations of mysterious identities that catch his attention: User:Jayjg/MysteryWho was he trying to finger there, User:Grace_Note? I had no idea. He used to have an account here, didn't he? Before my time... The fact is, of all the "checkuser" admins, Jayjg is by far the single most often-accused of misusing his feature access for non-kosher purposes, and almost certainly for good reason. I still don't think we're ever going to identify him without some sort of deus ex machina, but it's just inevitable that people would want to know who he is. Of course, if he turns out to be Brian Peppers, people here are gonna be pissed! (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/mad.gif)
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QUOTE(Heat @ Tue 6th March 2007, 3:31am) Paid lobbyist? Who does he work for? What is his real name? What city is he posting from? Any clues? Did a bunch of research looking for topic areas where Jayjg is abnormally knowledgeable. This means that I had to filter out the ethnic conflict and discrimination topics that are the favorite time wasters over at Wikipedia. What was left was a lot of Jewish topics, which isn't a surprise. I filtered out the general Judaism topics to see what stood out. After a while the pattern become obvious. Jayjg has very specific knowledge and interest in Chabad-Lubavitch, a large branch of Hasidic Judaism. I say this because of Jayjg's attention to the following articles (and his avoidance of topics not of relevance to Hasidic Judaism): What also stood out is that Jayjg rarely contributes new articles or sources. He prefers to edit war on the controversial articles, fight off vandals, and do minor clean ups on the topics he's genuinely interested in (such as those above.) Strange. QUOTE(Heat @ Wed 7th March 2007, 5:52am) If Jayjg is a paid staffer of a lobby group and uses his permissions to persecute critics of Israel it would make the essjay scandal pale in comparison. I highly doubt that Jayjg is paid. He's just an edit warrior on the controversial who has the admin bit. The biggest issue with Jayjg is his tendency to not contribute sources or new material in general, instead he falls back on simplistic and aggravating revert-based edit warring often progressing to a complete breakdown of WP:AGF. (The Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Judaism is now a strong supporter of Israel and takes a distinctly hard-line approach as described here: Haredim_and_Zionism#Chabad-Lubavitch.) - per Guy's comments. This post has been edited by Somey:
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