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> FT2 and Paul Sinclair, FT2 is not the man in the photos
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post Wed 26th November 2008, 12:15am
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Last night, I spoke by telephone at some length to Paul Sinclair of Sinclair Associates, the man pictured in this thread…
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=20192&st=0

…and on Hivemind:
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html#338

FT2 was certainly the "Paul Sinclair" of the failed Wikimedia UK, but this man is not FT2. Accordingly, I suggest tarpitting threads in which this innocent man is exposed and criticized in FT2's stead.
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post Thu 27th November 2008, 1:53am
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I find this all confusing as all get out.

Which isn't the end of the world because
a) If it confuses me, it no doubt confuses everyone else, which seems a good thing since you're all busily trying to out people.
b) It's amusing to see all these pseuds industriously trying to connect real life identities together,
and c) It doesn't matter, really, who FT2 is... Who cares? Not me.

For the record I condemn all of this as BS, harrassy, stalky, and missing the point. Not to mention WR at its worst. Not that anyone cares but there you go.

Carry on playing silly buggers.
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post Thu 27th November 2008, 2:28am
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QUOTE(Lar @ Wed 26th November 2008, 8:53pm) *
For the record I condemn all of this as BS, harrassy, stalky, and missing the point.

I was under the impression that the point, such as it is, is that several people here don't believe FT2 (T-C-L-K-R-D) 's assertions that his editing activity on articles relating to fetishism and bestiality is merely indicative of a high degree of interest in controversial topics in general, and that they may in fact be indicative of some form of bias or even a conflict of interest.

I agree that it's confusing, though... And one might also legitimately claim that FT2's editing activity on some of the articles in question might in itself be sufficiently suspect that his identity wouldn't have to be an issue. I can at least say that the mods here have had plenty of discussions about this, and there's almost unanimous agreement that he's both sufficiently controversial and influential enough for this level of scrutiny, even if it ultimately turns out that little is gained by it.
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Proabivouac   FT2 and Paul Sinclair   Wed 26th November 2008, 12:15am
Kato   Last night, I spoke by telephone at some length t...   Wed 26th November 2008, 12:20am
Giano   [quote name='Proabivouac' post='143142' date='Wed...   Wed 26th November 2008, 9:38am
dogbiscuit   [quote name='Proabivouac' post='143142' date='We...   Wed 26th November 2008, 9:52am
Herschelkrustofsky   Moderator's note: tarpitted per reader request...   Wed 26th November 2008, 1:39am
wikiwhistle   What about the WilkoBilko connection? :/ (confused...   Wed 26th November 2008, 2:45am
Proabivouac   What about the WilkoBilko connection? :/ (confuse...   Wed 26th November 2008, 2:49am
Milton Roe   What about the WilkoBilko connection? :/ (confus...   Wed 26th November 2008, 8:17pm
Peter Damian   [quote name='Proabivouac' post='143176' date='Tue...   Wed 26th November 2008, 8:25pm
dogbiscuit   On the other hand, if Milton had bothered to che...   Wed 26th November 2008, 9:20pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='Peter Damian' post='143289' date='We...   Wed 26th November 2008, 9:51pm
Peter Damian   Hang on - and this is important - FT2 also uses th...   Wed 26th November 2008, 10:01pm
privatemusings   For what it's worth - here's my little wri...   Wed 26th November 2008, 10:13pm
Milton Roe   Hang on - and this is important - FT2 also uses t...   Wed 26th November 2008, 10:29pm
Kato   Hang on - and this is important - FT2 also uses ...   Wed 26th November 2008, 11:11pm
tarantino   And if PM really did talk to FT2, why phrase it...   Wed 26th November 2008, 10:15pm
Peter Damian   [quote name='Peter Damian' post='143289' date='We...   Wed 26th November 2008, 10:16pm
Milton Roe   [quote name='wikiwhistle' post='143175' date='Wed...   Wed 26th November 2008, 10:06pm
Basil   Are you sure? I spoke by telephone at some lengt...   Wed 26th November 2008, 9:52am
dogbiscuit   ...well, aside from David Gerrard's middle nam...   Wed 26th November 2008, 10:27am
Moulton   If I haven't dropped my libretto under the sea...   Wed 26th November 2008, 11:34pm
CharlotteWebb   PrivateMusings talked voice (by Skype) to FT2. ...   Thu 27th November 2008, 2:02pm
dogbiscuit   It would be helpful for Alex to explain about the ...   Wed 26th November 2008, 11:44pm
Alex   It would be helpful for Alex to explain about the...   Wed 26th November 2008, 11:48pm
dogbiscuit   [quote name='dogbiscuit' post='143323' date='Wed ...   Thu 27th November 2008, 12:23am
Milton Roe   Last night, I spoke by telephone at some length t...   Thu 27th November 2008, 12:40am
Lar   I find this all confusing as all get out. Which i...   Thu 27th November 2008, 1:53am
Somey   For the record I condemn all of this as BS, harras...   Thu 27th November 2008, 2:28am
Milton Roe   I find this all confusing as all get out. Which ...   Thu 27th November 2008, 2:52am
EricBarbour   I really don't give a fig if a WP admin screw...   Sat 29th November 2008, 2:12am
wikiwhistle   [quote name='Milton Roe' post='143340' date='Wed ...   Sat 29th November 2008, 2:32am
wikiwhistle   I find this all confusing as all get out. Which ...   Thu 27th November 2008, 2:54am
Milton Roe   [quote name='Lar' post='143333' date='Thu 27th No...   Thu 27th November 2008, 3:15am
tarantino   and c) It doesn't matter, really, who FT2 is...   Thu 27th November 2008, 4:46am
dogbiscuit   and c) It doesn't matter, really, who FT2 i...   Thu 27th November 2008, 9:22am
Random23   For the record I condemn all of this as BS, harr...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 7:20pm
Eva Destruction   Did this thread really need reviving?   Tue 3rd February 2009, 7:33pm
Milton Roe   Did this thread really need reviving? Yes. It...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 9:04pm
Kelly Martin   Wow, zombie time.   Tue 3rd February 2009, 9:15pm
Milton Roe   Wow, zombie time. AND I totally missed that our ...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 9:40pm
cyofee   Impostor? Coincidence? Prank artist among WR's...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 9:57pm
the fieryangel   Impostor? Coincidence? Prank artist among WR...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 10:34pm
Milton Roe   Impostor? Coincidence? Prank artist among WR...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 10:36pm
the fieryangel   [ Yes, but rewinding to a couple of months ago, t...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 10:39pm
Milton Roe   [ Yes, but rewinding to a couple of months ago, ...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 10:44pm
the fieryangel   Nope. Been there, done that, played that game. G...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 10:48pm
Moulton   Yes, but rewinding to a couple of months ago, to q...   Tue 3rd February 2009, 10:49pm


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