QUOTE(LaraLove @ Tue 31st March 2009, 11:40am)
Anyway, I've never heard of Gb. Do we know where he stood on the BLP issue?
Like Shalom says, I think we know that he didn't stand on the BLP issue at all, one way or another.
GbÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
is actually a classic case of admin campaigning. If you look at his earliest contribs, there are about four or five spread out over roughly 3 months in 2007, followed by a sudden burst of admin-chore activity starting on April 24, 2007 - which he kept up on an almost-daily basis, until just recently. There are hardly any substantive content-adds whatsoever, for two whole years. He passed his
RfA in February 2008, with only four opposes, all of which mentioned his lack of "mainspace activity."
As it turns out, he was editing under a different name,
GilesbennettÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
(
still shown on the RfA page - if Wikipedia redacts the name, we'll do the same), prior to starting the "Gb" account. And if I'm not mistaken, he
got our own Ms. Webb to blank his previous account's user pages. Whether or not people accepted the story that he made more mainspace edits under the previous account is anyone's guess, but right now that account shows
only two contribs.