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Leading Wikipedia editor to visit Israel
Jerusalem Post, Israel -39 minutes ago
By HERB KEINON In an acknowledgement of the importance that the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has in shaping opinion, the Foreign Ministry is bringing one ...


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In an acknowledgement of the importance that the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has in shaping opinion [...]

"Shaping opinion" is just a euphemism for propaganda. Seems like prima facie evidence of extreme abuse/disruption either ongoing or future. Are the leaders of WP hunting down and killing the responsible parties in this case?

Head's up.

I'm pretty sure this guy is Hu12. Or is a leading candidate.

No such luck. Not Jayjg, either. It's this guy, a professional photographer who also fancies himself to be a journalist.

Shankbone's not a photographer. He's a financial manager and former commodities trade (former Enron UK, and somewhere in Spain, now manages the funds of two old New York families). Hu12.

Shankbone's first edit: # 18:31, 24 June 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Frances Bean Cobain‎ (→Jew)
Hu12's first edit # 06:37, 12 February 2006 (hist) (diff) Commodity market

This post has been edited by Disillusioned Lackey: Sun 9th December 2007, 1:12pm

Who is David Shankbone? The first thing you should know about me is I’m like nobody else you’ve ever met. My blood is the only connection between George Bernard Shaw and Jane Bowles. I'm a silly bastard, true of heart and I want the best for those in my life. I do not compete with friends or family. I've driven a motorcycle across Cuba, been a paparazzo in New York, worked at Enron in London, skydived over Italy and camped in the Amazon basin for a week to get over an intense fear of insects; it didn't work. I saw death on that trip. It's not the first time: I found a suicide in the woods on New Year's when I was 13 (a boy my age named Mike Drinkwater). By serendipity I found out why he did it. I live in the East Village y hablo Español. I have a scar on my face and a tattoo on my shoulder. David Bowie and The Libertines are all-time faves (I'm always rooting for Pete Doherty to pull through). In the fourth grade the nuns at my Catholic school told my mother in a parent-teacher conference I wanted them dead. I did not. I'm a big guy (6'3), athletic (185#), slim (32W x 34L) and pale (25% Irish/25% Dutch/50% German). I'm glad I'm getting older (wiser) and I disdain youth. I wear a suit to the office where I manage the assets of two of the founding families of New York City. I've moved 33 times amongst 3 countries (US, GB and ES), 6 states (NJ, GA, CO, TX, PA, NY) and 17 cities. Airline family, not military. Then it was me. Everything before NYC is forgotten. I like to travel off the beaten path. Happy endings never bore me.

Durova and him were cut from the same cloth.

What a bizarre story. They seem to be talking about Shankbone as if he was some kind of Wikimedia representative.

EDIT:What's an airline family?

What a bizarre story. They seem to be talking about Shankbone as if he was some kind of Wikimedia representative.

ps: "They" aren't talking about him. This is a self description.

Much like Durova (pre-scandal), he touts himself as a professional of Wikipedia. Nonsense.

EDIT:What's an airline family?

Not sure, but they seem to be capable of producing self-described high-flyers jetting around on their own hot air.

That he'll be feted by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a bit sickening, IMO. Talk about pandering.

This post has been edited by Disillusioned Lackey: Sun 9th December 2007, 2:14pm

OK, this old version of his user page links to Eastern Airlines so I suppose he is saying his family worked for that company. I wonder why he retired on August 1?

EDIT:OK he explains here that he was not retiring, but concentrating on wikinews.

"In an acknowledgement of the importance that the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has in shaping opinion"

And what shape would the Israeli Foreign Ministry prefer?

"More than once we have faced editors connected to Israel that appear on Wikipedia in English that do not represent the reality in Israel. We decided to initiate a visit by Shankbone to describe Israeli reality as it is."

I wonder who that was? Isarig?

Shankbone is apparently alumni of Fordham University School of Law. I wonder if he knows Gary Weiss who seems to take a particular interest in Fordham University?

"and most importantly:

List of Notable Fordham University Alumni! "

I also wonder whether Danny Wool, former no. 2 to Mr Wales, former chief educator for the Museum of Jewish Heritage NY and a former fellow member of NY's gay community had anything to do with David's trip to Israel?

Perhaps David could have a look at this racist reality in Israel:

"half of all Jewish respondents do not believe Arab Israelis are worthy of receiving the same rights as any other Israeli citizens"

"The study also found that the country's youth are equally prejudiced toward the Arab population with 72 percent of young respondents labeling Arab Israelis as "not clean" and "not intelligent.""

"The report said in 2007 alone, incidents involving anti-Arab sentiments by the country's Jewish population increased by 100 percent."