Cyberstalking list leaks, So much for sooper sekricy Options

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I've decided to post a few of the email threads taken from SlimVirgin's Cyberstalking list. I'm going to do this slowly because there are certain people I'd rather not embarrass and others who really deserve it and I need to figure out how to accomplish the later and not the former.

I'll start with my all time favorite: a thread in which David Gerard, Jimmy Wales and Gary Weiss (as Mantanmoreland in this case) discuss how to derail an AP reporter's inquiries into the situation Cade Metz ultimately did a great job reporting on here.

In this exchange, you'll see Gerard conclude that the best way to deal with the situation is essentially to mislead and confuse the reporter. When Gerard ultimately succeeds, Wales responds with "Brilliant, David!"

This should be required reading for any journalist dealing with the WMF on anything but a puff piece basis.

I'd post the text inline, but the emails as I received them were hard copies which I've scanned but cannot get to OCR very well, so I'm posting a pdf to my site (here) which you can download and read.

I've got a ton of these, which I'll try to post weekly (though there may be some redactions).

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Jimmy Wales not only defends David Gerard, he lathers him up with a loofah brush as they sit together in the same bubble bath of lies.

I, for one, am really sick of Jimbo lying about so many things, with nobody there to step in and call him on it.

David Gerard:
As the details communicated via Bagley are pretty much accurate, I figured we were unlikely to be able to stonewall this one into disappearing, so Sandy <Wikimedia Foundation Communications Manager, Sandra Ordonez> and Sue <Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Sue Gardner> recommended plan B: be tedious."

Jimmy Wales:
What David Gerard was trying to do there was find a way to explain the situation truthfully (which he did) without making it seem interesting (when it wasn't). This is quite common in handling press inquiries - you have to be very careful not to *create* a story when there isn't one. The last thing you want to do is say something interesting when there is actually nothing interesting to be said. So you have to write it up in a very boring way, being very careful to avoid inflaming a situation.

Bagley was making outrageous and frankly ludicrous claims about what can only be called a conspiracy theory.

Jimmy Wales is such an obviously deceitful troll. It's no wonder he can't get a woman to stand by him, even in good times. Nor can I imagine that he retains any friends from his life before Wikipedia.