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thekohser
post Fri 15th February 2008, 4:55am
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I've received some highly incriminating evidence via e-mail that Admin JoshuaZ has been carrying on a sockpuppeting campaign with accounts Gothnic and Miles Naismith.

I do have some suspicions about the e-mail (whether it's true documentation or forgery, but if it were forgery, someone spent dozens of hours piecing it together, so I'll assume it's true). I was advised to post the e-mail verbatim, because the mods here have not opened an account for this person using Gmail.

Anyway, if the news breaks soon, you might be able to say "I heard it here first". As things develop, I'll consider posting the contents of the e-mail.

The long and short of it is that JoshuaZ's "defense" is that those other accounts must be run by a roommate or someone else who follows him around Yale, and who also stops editing when Joshua goes to Puerto Rico for winter break. Of course, no cabalist wants to believe it, but the evidence is just about tight as a drum.

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post Fri 15th February 2008, 5:06am
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Why are you holding back from posting it? Also, does this claim mere sockpuppetry, or abusive sockpuppetry?
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thekohser   JoshuaZ   Fri 15th February 2008, 4:55am
Castle Rock   I've received some highly incriminating evide...   Fri 15th February 2008, 5:04am
thekohser   Why are you holding back from posting it? Also, d...   Fri 15th February 2008, 5:18am
Somey   Why are you holding back from posting it? Also, do...   Fri 15th February 2008, 5:30am
Daniel   [quote name='everyking' post='78912' date='Thu 14...   Fri 15th February 2008, 5:44am
UseOnceAndDestroy   http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?titl...oshua...   Fri 15th February 2008, 5:23pm
Proabivouac   [quote name='Daniel' post='78923' date='Fri 15th ...   Sat 16th February 2008, 1:49pm
Herschelkrustofsky   Obviously anything that can be used to curtail Jo...   Fri 15th February 2008, 3:45pm
Poetlister   Certainly JoshuaZ currently has rollback but not a...   Fri 15th February 2008, 12:42pm
Piperdown   Let's make a list of users that JoshZ has bann...   Fri 15th February 2008, 4:01pm
Daniel   Let's make a list of users that JoshZ has ban...   Fri 15th February 2008, 11:30pm
Aloft   http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=4864...   Sat 16th February 2008, 1:15pm
thekohser   http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=486...   Sun 17th February 2008, 6:36am
Error59   Deleted by Secret as "Only one editor has mad...   Tue 19th February 2008, 4:53pm
Daniel Brandt   JoshuaZ expressed extreme contempt for me in Augus...   Tue 19th February 2008, 7:45pm
Somey   I don't understand why ArbCom hasn't open ...   Tue 19th February 2008, 7:57pm
Daniel Brandt   There's a nice pic of Joshua Zelinsky here. h...   Fri 29th February 2008, 10:21pm


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