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> The Chipster goes on strike, -- cabal in disarray?
Herschelkrustofsky
post Wed 10th October 2007, 10:12pm
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Cberlet has, with great fanfare, announced that he is leaving for a month, to protest the failure of Wikipedia to "deal with" supporters of LaRouche who have opposed him in content disputes. The announcement appears on his user page and at least two article talk pages. This appears to be an attempt to copy one of the more successful maneuvers from SlimVirgin's playbook, where she plays the part of the damsel in distress, in hopes of drawing legions of admirers to take her side in a quarrel.

Heretofore, Cberlet has been successful in posting distress signals from time to time on talk pages, which would generally summon SlimVirgin, Will Beback, or Tom Harrison to his aid. Lately his cries of distress have largely fallen on deaf ears -- Will Beback responds, but he is somewhat circumspect about indulging in blatant abuse of his sysop powers. Historically, Will has preferred to let SV do the dirty work, and then he would write elaborate justifications for whatever thuggery she decided upon.

Now, with Jayjg gone, SV on the sidelines, and cberlet on strike, is the whole edifice beginning to crumble?
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post Wed 10th October 2007, 10:43pm
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Isn't Chip's message an outrageous breach of protocol?
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I am leaving for one month to commemorate the anniversary of Kristallnacht, which is on November 9th; after which I will reconsider my options, especially regarding the failure of Wikipedia to deal with the protracted and multi-year manipulation of Wikpedia by supporters of the notorious antisemite, sexist, and homophobe Lyndon LaRouche, especially on the entry, Views of Lyndon LaRouche.
Is LaRouche "a notorious antisemite, sexist, homophobe"? I don't know a lot about the guy and he's only shown up on my international radar via the wiki-wars, but I'm pretty sure he isn't notorious for any of those things. Not outside of Berlet's weird circle of anti-LaRouche campaigners who have been trying to smear the guy for decades, at any rate.

To be fair to the Chipster, the bigots certainly drag a good faith editor down. Unfortunately, Chip isn't a good faith editor.
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Herschelkrustofsky   The Chipster goes on strike   Wed 10th October 2007, 10:12pm
GlassBeadGame   Cberlet has, with great fanfare, announced that h...   Wed 10th October 2007, 10:38pm
nobs   Please show me even once instance where Berlet ha...   Wed 10th October 2007, 10:56pm
nobs   Cberlet has, with great fanfare, announced that h...   Wed 10th October 2007, 10:43pm
Kato   Isn't Chip's message an outrageous breach ...   Wed 10th October 2007, 10:43pm
nobs   Isn't Chip's message an outrageous breach...   Thu 11th October 2007, 3:55am
guy   Is LaRouche "a notorious antisemite, sexist,...   Thu 11th October 2007, 8:50am
No one of consequence   So far as I can see, LaRouche isn't a notorio...   Thu 11th October 2007, 1:38pm
Castle Rock   Cberlet has, with great fanfare, announced that h...   Thu 11th October 2007, 12:15am
Kato   The matter here isn't really about LaRouche as...   Thu 11th October 2007, 2:14pm
Herschelkrustofsky   The matter here isn't really about LaRouche a...   Thu 11th October 2007, 2:29pm
Kato   Interestingly, Thatcher131 has now redacted ...   Fri 12th October 2007, 6:03pm
Jonny Cache   Oh, and how dare he invoke ¡No Pasarán! in ...   Fri 12th October 2007, 6:54pm
nobs   He did this repeatedly until... [url=http://en.wik...   Fri 12th October 2007, 8:24pm
Derktar   [center][img]http://www.publiceye.org/berlet/chip...   Fri 12th October 2007, 8:34pm
jorge   [center][img]http://www.publiceye.org/berlet/chi...   Fri 12th October 2007, 8:40pm
nobs   [quote name='Derktar' post='54198' date='Fri 12th...   Fri 12th October 2007, 9:20pm
guy   It's a witchhunt I tell you! The anti-sem...   Fri 12th October 2007, 9:20pm
nobs   [quote name='jorge' post='54199' date='Fri 12th O...   Fri 12th October 2007, 9:31pm
Kato   [quote name='guy' post='54213' date='Fri 12th Oct...   Fri 12th October 2007, 9:59pm
JohnA   It is telling that an administrator at conservape...   Sat 13th October 2007, 7:45am
nobs   [quote name='Kato' post='54218' date='Fri 12th Oc...   Sat 13th October 2007, 6:25pm
Kato   Berlet's a Charter Member of the [url=http://...   Sat 13th October 2007, 7:38pm
nobs   [quote name='nobs' post='54292' date='Sat 13th Oct...   Sat 13th October 2007, 9:10pm
GlassBeadGame   Examining all the evidence, Berlet's associat...   Sat 13th October 2007, 9:26pm
JohnA   [quote name='nobs' post='54303' date='Sat 13th Oc...   Sat 13th October 2007, 9:55pm
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='nobs' post='54303' date='Sat 13th O...   Sat 13th October 2007, 9:59pm
alienus   I doubt he has any principled beliefs at this ti...   Sun 14th October 2007, 9:21pm
nobs   [quote name='JohnA' post='54311' date='Sat 13th Oc...   Mon 15th October 2007, 1:01am
Kato   Nobs, all I'm getting from your links on this ...   Mon 15th October 2007, 1:08am
GlassBeadGame   Nobs, all I'm getting from your links on this...   Mon 15th October 2007, 1:18am
nobs   [quote name='Kato' post='54461' date='Sun 14th Oct...   Mon 15th October 2007, 1:35am
WhispersOfWisdom   Forgive me for my habit of taking exception to f...   Sat 13th October 2007, 10:34pm
GlassBeadGame   Since I cannot eat it and it does not pay any div...   Sun 14th October 2007, 1:23pm
jorge   It's a witchhunt I tell you! The anti-se...   Fri 12th October 2007, 10:29pm
Herschelkrustofsky   [quote name='jorge' post='54199' date='Fri 12th O...   Fri 12th October 2007, 11:19pm
jorge   He's as WASPy as they come. His given name i...   Fri 12th October 2007, 11:38pm
Poetlister   He's as WASPy as they come. His given name is...   Sat 13th October 2007, 7:06am
Somey   Berlet is a WASP name? I don't see why not...?...   Sat 13th October 2007, 5:15pm
dtobias   I've known about Larouche since the '80s, ...   Thu 11th October 2007, 4:13pm
nobs   Berlet quits in a huff. Accuses the Admin communi...   Thu 11th October 2007, 6:47pm
GlassBeadGame   Berlet quits in a huff. Accuses the Admin commun...   Fri 12th October 2007, 7:03pm
It's the blimp, Frank   Hey, Chip is not so slick. He immediated created U...   Sat 13th October 2007, 1:00am
Derktar   Hey, Chip is not so slick. He immediated created ...   Sat 13th October 2007, 1:21am
Herschelkrustofsky   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Hardi...   Sat 13th October 2007, 6:17am
nobs   Hey, Chip is not so slick. He immediated created ...   Wed 17th October 2007, 3:15am
Daniel Brandt   How can anyone make Berlet look more stupid than B...   Sat 13th October 2007, 4:05am
Somey   [/quote] Was he even watching the right movie? Be...   Sat 13th October 2007, 5:56am
Cedric   Hee hee! I can never read one of these self-p...   Sat 13th October 2007, 11:01am
dtobias   Socialist, Communist, Trotskyite, Stalinist... who...   Sat 13th October 2007, 8:48pm
GlassBeadGame   Socialist, Communist, Trotskyite, Stalinist... wh...   Sat 13th October 2007, 8:54pm
guy   they all stink, the same is true of all the diffe...   Sat 13th October 2007, 9:52pm
Herschelkrustofsky   May I respectfully suggest that we either find our...   Mon 15th October 2007, 2:54am
Kato   May I respectfully suggest that we either find ou...   Mon 15th October 2007, 3:05am
Herschelkrustofsky   And behold! The matter is now before the arbco...   Tue 16th October 2007, 2:14pm
GlassBeadGame   And behold! The matter is now before the arbc...   Tue 16th October 2007, 2:38pm
nobs   And behold! The matter is now before the arbc...   Tue 16th October 2007, 5:40pm
Herschelkrustofsky   And behold! The matter is now before the arbc...   Wed 17th October 2007, 9:14pm
Mndrew   I believe HK was referring to this statement by Ma...   Tue 16th October 2007, 5:14pm
blissyu2   It is currently at 2/3/1 against it being accepted...   Wed 17th October 2007, 10:58pm
Herschelkrustofsky   Fred Bauder is acting in a surprisingly NPOV fashi...   Thu 18th October 2007, 12:38am
dtobias   Fred Bauder is acting in a surprisingly NPOV fash...   Thu 18th October 2007, 9:22pm
Herschelkrustofsky   Fred Bauder is acting in a surprisingly NPOV fas...   Fri 19th October 2007, 12:39am
The Joy   "Hardindr?" Hmmm.... http://en.wikiped...   Thu 18th October 2007, 2:26am
Herschelkrustofsky   And, the latest: JzG claims that the Wikipedia Rev...   Thu 18th October 2007, 3:05pm
nobs   JzG says In relation to the Motion brought by Fred...   Thu 18th October 2007, 9:26pm
Herschelkrustofsky   Another interesting wrinkle in all this is the rel...   Sun 21st October 2007, 4:42pm
Somey   What do we know about him/her? I am inclined to no...   Sun 21st October 2007, 5:33pm
jorge   You're presumably referring to this ArbCom Cl...   Sun 21st October 2007, 9:04pm
Yehudi   Somey I don't think you could call LaRouche r...   Sun 21st October 2007, 9:34pm
jorge   Somey I don't think you could call LaRouche ...   Sun 21st October 2007, 9:50pm
Herschelkrustofsky   I don't think that his views are inteelectual...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 12:53am
Somey   Well, it's no secret that I consider Wikipedia...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 2:59am
Herschelkrustofsky   "Fabians" (presumably a code-word for B...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 2:14pm
Kato   "Fabians" (presumably a code-word for ...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 2:24pm
jorge   [center][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_H...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 2:42pm
Jonny Cache   [quote name='Somey' post='55889' date='Sun 21st O...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 2:40pm
Daniel Brandt   Another interesting wrinkle in all this is the re...   Sun 21st October 2007, 5:42pm
GlassBeadGame   Another interesting wrinkle in all this is the r...   Sun 21st October 2007, 5:50pm
guy   I don't know who he is, but I know where he i...   Sun 21st October 2007, 8:54pm
Jonny Cache   Ha Ha, we made you say "Fuggers" — Jo...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 3:24am
Somey   Ha Ha, we made you say "Fuggers"... Imag...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 4:48am
Jonny Cache   Ha Ha, we made you say "Fuggers" … ...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 12:20pm
Kato   I've moved an offtopic discussion about Conser...   Mon 22nd October 2007, 4:07am
Herschelkrustofsky   Flonight, back at the arbcom ranch, is calling upo...   Wed 24th October 2007, 12:49am
It's the blimp, Frank   http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/barlet.jpg   Fri 30th November 2007, 2:43am
Kyaa the Catlord   Oh Chip's fabulous! My favorite article o...   Tue 11th December 2007, 2:00pm
Moulton   It's more like a misanthropic social networkin...   Thu 13th December 2007, 9:48pm
nobs   It's more like a misanthropic social networki...   Thu 13th December 2007, 10:01pm
Moulton   If Wikipedia is the 8th ranked site on the Web, a ...   Thu 13th December 2007, 10:46pm
nobs   If Wikipedia is the 8th ranked site on the Web, a...   Thu 13th December 2007, 11:01pm
Moulton   I'll have to read about your case. Gimme a li...   Thu 13th December 2007, 11:35pm


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