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post Sun 10th February 2008, 1:44am
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G-dett and Cool hand Luke's sections draw attention to idiosyncratic "phraseologies" shared by both Mantanmoreland and Samiharris accounts, with Alanyst providing edit time analysis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SirFozzi...igation/Sandbox

This looks promising, to say the least. What is needed is more of the same. Such evidence, in combination with a plausible motivation scenario, was enough to convict Oldwindybear straightaway, and, after much strife, convince ArbCom in the SevenOfDiamonds case:

I bear no ill will towards Mantanmoreland/Samiharris. The few interactions I've had with him were entirely positive, and several of his friends I would call mine as well.

But as the evidence approaches the overwhelming - as I sadly imagine it will - the deception that has been foisted upon the project, up to the very highest levels of authority, and the questions of corruption which inevitably follow from its recognition…well, this is serious stuff, folks. There's a lot of money and more than one real-life reputation riding on these issues. A serious shake-up is in order - blocking one retired sock isn't remotely sufficient. Anyone who might reasonably be expected to have known about this should be very closely examined.

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The Wales Hunter
post Fri 15th February 2008, 6:33pm
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Enjoy, everybody, perhaps we should all club together and buy a statue for a small Indian town:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=191676873

To quote the image caption:

"Mantanmoreland switched to Indian time at the same time W was in India"


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QUOTE(The Wales Hunter @ Fri 15th February 2008, 6:33pm) *

Enjoy, everybody, perhaps we should all club together and buy a statue for a small Indian town:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=191676873

To quote the image caption:

"Mantanmoreland switched to Indian time at the same time W was in India"


Looks like a Jackson Pollack masterpiece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mantanm...d_date-time.png

It's always been Varkala for me, babe.

I googled MM, saw that on ASM, went to WP and Forbes for myself, and it was "Gary is MM" ever since. All is dancing after that was just entertainment and laughs, because I knew then, without even later seeing Wordy's IP evidence(s) that he's put together on-Wp,off-WP over a period of more than a year, well that was just "yup....yup....uh-huh....still?....jeez....whatanidiot...." for me.

When we get to see the 1,841 emails in Byrne's stash hopefully soon and in a very reliable source way, it will be more than laughs, it will be roflmao's all around. Byrne says on his "Deep Capture" blog (2/12/08) that GW's emails admit editing WP.

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Proabivouac   Sir Fozzie's investigation   Sun 10th February 2008, 1:44am
Peter Damian   G-dett and Cool hand Luke's sections draw att...   Sun 10th February 2008, 5:37pm
Piperdown   G-dett and Cool hand Luke's sections draw at...   Sun 10th February 2008, 5:41pm
WordBomb   What is the background to this case, please?Best p...   Sun 10th February 2008, 6:06pm
Piperdown   What is the background to this case, please?Best ...   Sun 10th February 2008, 6:09pm
Moulton   In the real world of writing traditional encyclop...   Sun 10th February 2008, 5:45pm
Piperdown   In the real world of writing traditional encyclo...   Sun 10th February 2008, 5:50pm
Achromatic   I agree. Ironically, I don't think I should b...   Sun 10th February 2008, 9:31pm
Amarkov   [quote name='Piperdown' post='78120' date='Sun 10...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:12pm
Piperdown   what is being talked about here in the amazon exam...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:16pm
Achromatic   what is being talked about here in the amazon exa...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:21pm
WhispersOfWisdom   what is being talked about here in the amazon ex...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:31pm
WordBomb   It's a good point. I remember when Amazon intr...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:34pm
WhispersOfWisdom   [quote name='Moulton' post='78098' date='Sun 10t...   Thu 14th February 2008, 3:09am
Piperdown   The amazing G-Dett http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp...   Sun 10th February 2008, 6:04pm
Piperdown   http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...igati...   Sun 10th February 2008, 7:59pm
Piperdown   Some kind W-R'ian please jonnycache or save Si...   Sun 10th February 2008, 8:30pm
Piperdown   When the going gets tough, the tough go whip out o...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:00pm
Amarkov   Well, yes, they could demand to check your credit ...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:31pm
Piperdown   Well, yes, they could demand to check your credit...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:36pm
WordBomb   Well, yes, they [i]could demand to check your cre...   Sun 10th February 2008, 10:51pm
WhispersOfWisdom   ^ This, of course, is the reason why KNOL and MSFT...   Sun 10th February 2008, 11:17pm
Moulton   I said a long time ago that the players with deep...   Mon 11th February 2008, 4:01pm
Proabivouac   From Alanyst and Cool Hand Luke: "removing/rv...   Mon 11th February 2008, 4:55am
The Wales Hunter   He's trying to use technicalities to get out o...   Wed 13th February 2008, 12:28am
Kato   According to Morven, Mantanmoreland has a good cas...   Wed 13th February 2008, 12:42am
The Wales Hunter   You're not the only one who is sitting here, s...   Wed 13th February 2008, 12:50am
Poetlister   Mantanmoreland is now claiming there is no disput...   Wed 13th February 2008, 1:14pm
Kato   My God. He did say "lack of a dispute". ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 12:55am
Achromatic   My God. He did say "lack of a dispute"....   Wed 13th February 2008, 12:57am
Somey   My God. He did say "lack of a dispute". ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 1:22am
Proabivouac   Morven, though... that's a pretty stupid move...   Wed 13th February 2008, 1:51am
LamontStormstar   Um, no, nice try…User:Samiharris is still editi...   Wed 13th February 2008, 2:01am
The Wales Hunter   Um, no, nice try…User:Samiharris is still edit...   Wed 13th February 2008, 2:02am
Achromatic   Although they did manage to "retire" fr...   Wed 13th February 2008, 3:08am
The Wales Hunter   http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid...   Wed 13th February 2008, 1:27am
The Wales Hunter   MONGO has agreed with Morven's view :lol:   Wed 13th February 2008, 1:56am
Proabivouac   MONGO has agreed with Morven's view :lol: I ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 6:08am
Kato   Mantanmoreland abused the harassment meme to suck...   Wed 13th February 2008, 9:57am
Viridae   Although they did manage to "retire" f...   Wed 13th February 2008, 5:26am
Kato   Jimbo writes on Wikiback Just to follow up. I ha...   Wed 13th February 2008, 9:17am
Proabivouac   Just to follow up. I have my own opinions and beli...   Wed 13th February 2008, 10:15am
Error59   If Weiss had any balls, he would wait until SirFoz...   Wed 13th February 2008, 11:00am
Piperdown   If Weiss had any balls Ironically, ask Mantamor...   Wed 13th February 2008, 1:53pm
The Wales Hunter   A problem here is that if Mantanmoreland admits he...   Wed 13th February 2008, 12:01pm
The Wales Hunter   Jimbo has now been reported to AN/I regarding the ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 1:25pm
Piperdown   The elephant in the room - Yesterday Wikipedian us...   Wed 13th February 2008, 1:34pm
thekohser   I didn't think I'd ever have anything to d...   Wed 13th February 2008, 2:12pm
WordBomb   I didn't think I'd ever have anything to ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 2:21pm
Piperdown   my first take on the Kohsers activity on WP when I...   Wed 13th February 2008, 2:28pm
The Wales Hunter   Response: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit...   Wed 13th February 2008, 2:44pm
Piperdown   gary is sami is mantan is tomstoner is lastexit is...   Wed 13th February 2008, 3:03pm
Aloft   I am not Samiharris, and neither I nor Samiharris ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 3:37pm
The Wales Hunter   The RFC looks like it's turning towards real-l...   Wed 13th February 2008, 3:48pm
The Wales Hunter   Tomstoner blocked as sockpuppet http://en.wikiped...   Wed 13th February 2008, 5:21pm
Piperdown   Tomstoner blocked as sockpuppet http://en.wikipe...   Wed 13th February 2008, 5:38pm
One   This is moving really fast. I usually have somethi...   Wed 13th February 2008, 7:09pm
The Wales Hunter   http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid...   Wed 13th February 2008, 7:23pm
One   I have a bad feeling about this: http://en.wikipe...   Wed 13th February 2008, 7:59pm
thekohser   I have a bad feeling about this: http://en.wikip...   Thu 14th February 2008, 2:52am
The Wales Hunter   Agreed. He'll get away with it. Someone like W...   Wed 13th February 2008, 8:07pm
Piperdown   Agreed. He'll get away with it. Someone like ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 8:12pm
WordBomb   Agreed. He'll get away with it. Someone like ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 8:19pm
Piperdown   here's a clue, WP'ians, and for a growing ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 8:23pm
WhispersOfWisdom   A kids version of peek-a-boo. How lame. Anyone...   Wed 13th February 2008, 8:25pm
The Wales Hunter   It's reached Arbcom. About the fifth venue in ...   Wed 13th February 2008, 9:48pm
Piperdown   It's reached Arbcom. About the fifth venue in...   Wed 13th February 2008, 10:16pm
One   Yeah, I suspect ArbCom will produce something mutu...   Wed 13th February 2008, 10:32pm
LamontStormstar   Most of gary's socks use famous people's r...   Thu 14th February 2008, 8:20am
Cedric   Well, well! Isn't this precious!: T...   Thu 14th February 2008, 2:09pm
Achromatic   The biggest word for me in Jimbo's quote is ...   Thu 14th February 2008, 5:13pm
Piperdown   jimbo blanked the Fall 2006 [Gary Weiss] AFD debat...   Thu 14th February 2008, 2:17pm
The Wales Hunter   But Jimbo admitting he had suspicion at least is s...   Thu 14th February 2008, 2:17pm
Piperdown   what's my smoking gun, among many, is Varkala ...   Thu 14th February 2008, 2:26pm
One   Holy shit. I know you guys have seen this before, ...   Thu 14th February 2008, 2:52pm
Piperdown   Holy shit. I know you guys have seen this before,...   Thu 14th February 2008, 2:56pm
WordBomb   Holy shit. I know you guys have seen this before, ...   Thu 14th February 2008, 3:59pm
The Wales Hunter   Things are moving fast. Who will be the first to ...   Thu 14th February 2008, 3:02pm
Kato   The conclusive edits for me were Mantan's occa...   Thu 14th February 2008, 4:19pm
The Wales Hunter   They could take the Arbcom on a field trip to Weis...   Thu 14th February 2008, 4:22pm
Piperdown   I am disturbed by the thought that Sami and MM ar...   Thu 14th February 2008, 4:31pm
The Wales Hunter   I am disturbed by the thought that Sami and MM a...   Thu 14th February 2008, 4:45pm
WordBomb   Also, MM's eagerness to have both accounts ans...   Thu 14th February 2008, 5:20pm
The Wales Hunter   Arbcom has opened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...   Thu 14th February 2008, 11:16pm
guy   The question is: have they both edited Twinkle Twi...   Fri 15th February 2008, 12:36am
The Wales Hunter   WordBomb is SamiHarris :lol: From Thatcher: htt...   Fri 15th February 2008, 12:48am
WordBomb   [b]NO WAY. NO WAY he actually wrote that! L...   Fri 15th February 2008, 2:24am
The Wales Hunter   Jimbo gives his evidence: Evidence presented by J...   Fri 15th February 2008, 2:37am
Proabivouac   Unbelievable. These folks mimic to the point of p...   Fri 15th February 2008, 2:46am
Moulton   Ultimately, what to believe or disbelieve comes do...   Fri 15th February 2008, 4:08am
guy   Compare the treatment of Poetlister, where the evi...   Fri 15th February 2008, 12:02pm
Poetlister   This and the JoshuaZ case. Yes, I voted the same ...   Fri 15th February 2008, 1:18pm
GlassBeadGame   Enjoy, everybody, perhaps we should all club toge...   Fri 15th February 2008, 7:10pm
No one of consequence   "Mantanmoreland switched to Indian time at ...   Fri 15th February 2008, 8:23pm
Piperdown   The Varkala Time Warp is truly a smoking gun and...   Fri 15th February 2008, 8:42pm
guy   The Varkala Time Warp is truly a smoking gun and ...   Fri 15th February 2008, 9:04pm
The Wales Hunter   So the evidence that (should) piece Weiss and Mant...   Fri 15th February 2008, 6:49pm
Piperdown   So it seems the evidence that (should) piece Weis...   Fri 15th February 2008, 6:52pm
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