Sam Blacketer Options Rating

[CharlotteWebb]

Now quit your gabbin' and note passin' or you're gonna be late for Home Room.

Alrighty then. If one receives a passed note they can always say "I threw it away without reading it" but nobody ever believes that (even if it is true) so what's the point. Might as well go ahead and read it.

A big-ol' t-shirt that said "don't pass me any notes, I don't wanna hear it" might not get anyone sent to the principal's office, only to the shrink's office with all the other anti-social problem-childs for an all-you-can-eat buffet of happy-pills and sensitivity training likely to prove more harmful than that which they first sought to avoid.

This derailed train of thought leaves me chuckling that WP in fact has an admin called "Hall Monitor" (!) which seems like a rather pompous name to register, though possibly a guarantor of success at RFA, like "wow, this clod obviously has The Right Stuff".

This post has been edited by CharlotteWebb: Thu 28th May 2009, 3:14pm

[Mr. Mystery]

I tried Google and WR search on Risker--didn't see much of anything.
Very low profile. RFA reveals nothing, except she's a she, and evidently
like James Blunt a lot. (She keeps such a low profile, not many people
even knew her gender.)

Bah. Either Arbcom will devise some kind of proper "policy" about their own members,
or things will stagger along as before. Daniel can out her if he wishes, though it might
not serve any useful purpose.

Screw this, I'm tired of looking thru logs.

Risker (arbcom, Abuse Filter editor, checkuser, oversight, administrator) will be a tough one to crack. She is over 35 years old and lives in southern Ontario in Canada. She said this on a Gwen_Gale talk page (archive1): "Incidentally, I don't use my own name when editing here because I am the only person in North America with this name, and thus have genuine concerns about my privacy."

That's about all I can find.

By the way, using the en.wikipedia.org search with certain boxes checked can be educational. I like these boxes most: User and User talk, Wikpedia and Wikipedia talk, and the File box for credits on images.

Using my sharply honed linguistic analysis skills, I've long suspected Risker of being a rather prominent anon commentator on this board. I generally like the work she's been doing, with both accounts, so I haven't tried to substantiate this.

[gomi]

Pardon my ignorance of British Parliamentary affairs, but has anyone enquired as to Mr. "Blacketer"s relationship (if any) with Betty Boothroyd (T-H-L-K-D)? She was the former speaker of the Commons, and apparently quite formidable, according to this week's Economist (on the subject of her successor's defrocking) and is now a Baroness in the House of Lords.

Blacketer, in his various incarnations, seems to have steered largely clear of her article, with this exception of this minor edit.

[Eva Destruction]

Pardon my ignorance of British Parliamentary affairs, but has anyone enquired as to Mr. "Blacketer"s relationship (if any) with Betty Boothroyd (T-H-L-K-D)? She was the former speaker of the Commons, and apparently quite formidable, according to this week's Economist (on the subject of her successor's defrocking) and is now a Baroness in the House of Lords.

Blacketer, in his various incarnations, seems to have steered largely clear of her article, with this exception of this minor edit.

I assume unrelated or only distantly related; Betty Boothroyd's from Yorkshire and has no kids. It's not a particularly uncommon name.

[Peter Damian]

Pardon my ignorance of British Parliamentary affairs, but has anyone enquired as to Mr. "Blacketer"s relationship (if any) with Betty Boothroyd (T-H-L-K-D)? She was the former speaker of the Commons, and apparently quite formidable, according to this week's Economist (on the subject of her successor's defrocking) and is now a Baroness in the House of Lords.

Blacketer, in his various incarnations, seems to have steered largely clear of her article, with this exception of this minor edit.

I assume unrelated or only distantly related; Betty Boothroyd's from Yorkshire and has no kids. It's not a particularly uncommon name.

Correct. Although David Boothroyd grew up in Leeds.

[sbrown]

I assume unrelated or only distantly related; Betty Boothroyd's from Yorkshire and has no kids. It's not a particularly uncommon name.

Theres a well-known writer called Basil Boothroyd (who has no wikipeida article).

[Kato]

Pardon my ignorance of British Parliamentary affairs, but has anyone enquired as to Mr. "Blacketer"s relationship (if any) with Betty Boothroyd (T-H-L-K-D)? She was the former speaker of the Commons, and apparently quite formidable, according to this week's Economist (on the subject of her successor's defrocking) and is now a Baroness in the House of Lords.

Blacketer, in his various incarnations, seems to have steered largely clear of her article, with this exception of this minor edit.

I assume unrelated or only distantly related; Betty Boothroyd's from Yorkshire and has no kids. It's not a particularly uncommon name.

Correct. Although David Boothroyd grew up in Leeds.

It's a very common Yorkshire name. I wouldn't read too much into that.

[EricBarbour]

And just to drag this back on-topic.....

It turns out that British political bloggers found out about Boothroyd's resignation.
Having a field day, etc........Here are some links.

Anna Raccoon summed it up nicely.

These people are the most insidious, devious, sinister, control freaks in existence.

[thekohser]

I fixed it up really nice, with an additional GFDL vignette about the "Sick as a parrot" affair, plus some juicy semantic tags. Currently, my page is #43 in Google for search on "Sam Blacketer". Not in the top 500 for "David Boothroyd", but heck, the page is just a few hours old.

What a difference a day makes.

I got an e-mail from Boothroyd (but still signing his "name" as Sam Blacketer), with one of those half-apologies-that-isn't-an-apology lines -- that he's sorry if his comments about Wikipedia Review being unethical bothered me. I instructed him how to convey a proper apology, so we'll see how that goes.

Meanwhile, a Google search for:

Sam Blacketer = my page on Wikipedia Review is #15 out of 9,940

"Sam Blacketer" = #14 out of 83

David Boothroyd = #23 out of 139,000

"David Boothroyd" = #25 out of 12,200

David Boothroyd sockpuppet = #1 out of 64

David Boothroyd scandal = #1 out of 6,250

David Boothroyd London = #4 out of 47,500

David Boothroyd Westminster = #9 out of 14,100

Anyway, you get the picture. All in less than three days' time.

[Peter Damian]

Coren is another FT2?

I don't know. I wasn't satisfied by the evidence against FT2 - and thought a lot of it was overblown and came from a whispering campaign against him.

The evidence against FT2 was simply that he had two edits oversighted, and then later lied about it.

This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Fri 29th May 2009, 6:56am

[Random832]

The evidence against FT2 was simply that he had two edits oversighted, and then later lied about it.

The evidence against FT2 was simply that someone had two edits oversighted, and then later claimed not to know about it.

The charge that he had them oversighted and that he therefore lied are not evidence, they are the things that they are evidence of. Not quite the same thing.

[Snowey]

Looks like a 50/50 split developing at Boothroyd's Deletion Review argument. Think Jehochman would actually try to close it himself?

[tarantino]

Looks like a 50/50 split developing at Boothroyd's Deletion Review argument. Think Jehochman would actually try to close it himself?

I can sympathize with a doofus who doesn't want to be immortalized with a biography on Wikipedia. However wikipedos are are being a tad hypocritical when they simultaneously say he is non-notable and also link to his personal web site over 700 times, because it appears to be an authoritative source on British elections.

[RMHED]

Looks like a 50/50 split developing at Boothroyd's Deletion Review argument. Think Jehochman would actually try to close it himself?

I can sympathize with a doofus who doesn't want to be immortalized with a biography on Wikipedia. However wikipedos are are being a tad hypocritical when they simultaneously say he is non-notable and also link to his personal web site over 700 times, because it appears to be an authoritative source on British elections.

Certainly has a lot more links than this website. Definitely no double standards being applied here then.

[Milton Roe]

I can sympathize with a doofus who doesn't want to be immortalized with a biography on Wikipedia. However wikipedos are are being a tad hypocritical when they simultaneously say he is non-notable and also link to his personal web site over 700 times, because it appears to be an authoritative source on British elections.

A tad hypocritical?? I suppose that's the famous Brit understatement. This guy is the king of the make-me-nod BLP. He's responsible himself for hundreds of them. And as the maker of his very own, Boothroyd totally needs to be the continuing victim of a Bio himself on WP, forever. Or until their policy is changed. Or until evil dark energy makes all the stars disappear and then finally explodes our very atoms. Whichever comes first.

[Snowey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Del...Log/2009_May_27

The deletion review discussion has fallen off the main WP:DRV index without being closed for or against restoration. Maybe it'll just disappear quietly?

[Zeraeph]

Bl**dy h*ll!!!

Just dropped by to see how ye all are (Somey, "working out" is SELF HARM - please stop it) and I see this?

That weasel screwed me over (in private) in relation to arbcom in a significant way...can't remember details cos they are on my PC and I am in bed with my laptop (What can I say? George Clooney had a headache.), but I remember being totally freaked out by him...and then convincing myself that I MUST be imagining things, because he came across as SOOOOOOOO respectable, kindly and elderly...

All I can say is, I'd be happier if he was a conservative...I come from an "Old guard" Brit Labour background, going back to WWI, and, frankly, multiple knives in the back are a LOT easier to take when they don't come from your own team...

I'll have to dig up the details tomorrow...or the day after, I have stuff to do...

This post has been edited by Zeraeph: Sun 7th June 2009, 3:18am

[A User]

The Independent

"Wikipedia 'sentinel' quits after using alias to alter entries"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit...es-1698762.html

[thekohser]

The Independent

"Wikipedia 'sentinel' quits after using alias to alter entries"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit...es-1698762.html

It would seem that Boothroyd is now worthy of his own article. And, for that matter (as Tim Usher pointed out to me) Arbitration Committee seems to be article-worthy, as far as the multiple reliable sources go now.

[thekohser]

Time for an update, now that 10 days have passed!

Sam Blacketer = my page on Wikipedia Review is #15 out of 9,940 #16 out of 25,900

"Sam Blacketer" = #14 out of 83 #18 out of 97

David Boothroyd = #23 out of 139,000 #12 out of 176,000

"David Boothroyd" = #25 out of 12,200 #9 out of 35,700

David Boothroyd sockpuppet = #1 out of 64 #1 out of 72

David Boothroyd scandal = #1 out of 6,250 #1 out of 7,740

David Boothroyd London = #4 out of 47,500 #4 out of 75,500

David Boothroyd Westminster = #9 out of 14,100 #8 out of 26,400

Looks like teh Interwebz have turned up the heat on Mr. Boothroyd, with lots and lots more pages relating to these searches. But Wikipedia Review is holding strong or moving up on all but two of them.