Scholars who've asked for their biographies to be deleted, Catholics, Buddhists, feminists, Muslims ... Options

[HRIP7]

Another scholar asking for his biography to be deleted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...n#Ian_Dowbiggin

As far as I can make out, the biography was turned into an attack piece by a now-blocked sock, Jabbsworth (T-C-L-K-R-D) . The BLP subject has been blocked too as a "sockpuppeteer" (by Catfish Jim and the soapdish (T-C-L-K-R-D) ), after having made a grand total of 7 edits with two non-overlapping accounts. A prime example of Wikipedia assuming good faith, eh?

Nothing against secularism, but if it stoops to smearing academics because they follow a religious faith ... Dowbiggin is a Catholic, but there may be a wider pattern here, crossing religious boundaries. For example, last month a Buddhist feminist scholar requested deletion of her biography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...n/Rita_M._Gross

and there was Abbas, a Muslim, as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...3rd_nomination)

Let's collect these cases here.

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[radek]

Another scholar asking for his biography to be deleted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...n#Ian_Dowbiggin

As far as I can make out, the biography was turned into an attack piece by a now-blocked sock, Jabbsworth (T-C-L-K-R-D) . The BLP subject has been blocked too as a "sockpuppeteer" (by Catfish Jim and the soapdish (T-C-L-K-R-D) ), after having made a grand total of 7 edits with two non-overlapping accounts. A prime example of Wikipedia assuming good faith, eh?

Nothing against secularism, but if it stoops to smearing academics because they follow a religious faith ... Dowbiggin is a Catholic, but there may be a wider pattern here, crossing religious boundaries. For example, last month a Buddhist feminist scholar requested deletion of her biography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...n/Rita_M._Gross

and there was Abbas, a Muslim, as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...3rd_nomination)

Let's collect these cases here.

This, along with Horsey's thread just epitomizes the sheer idiocy that rules that site. I know, I know, there's plenty of crafty conniving evil there too, but sometimes just the sheer stupid of Wikipedia is blinding. The whole SOPA thing comes to mind too. It really is the case that most of these people are plain and simple morons (with a few shifty cynics, well poised to take advantage of them thrown into the mix). Here's the sad thing. Usually words like "moron" and "stupid" are used as hyperbolic insults in nasty flame wars. Here it is about the most charitable adjective that one can come up for some of these people. Calling them stupid and moronic really does involves a whole buttload of good faith to begin with.