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> People who refuse to equally protect BLPs, Taking Names
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This is a dynamic list of Wikipedia editors who refuse to offer Wikipedia's innocent victims the same privileges offered to Wikipedia co-founder Jimbo Wales, who has his biography permanently protected / semi-protected from drive-by vandalism at all times. Certain other subjects, such as Wales's former bed partner Rachel Marsden are also permanently protected.

By practice, Wikipedia editors do not offer this to other article subjects. And hence, these innocent bystanders are repeatedly subjected to defamatory attacks, some of which stay on their articles for months and years. Every week, another story comes out of a victim having to confront their own biography and WP's shameful practices. Today it was Walter Mondale.

This is the most obscene hypocrisy that blights Wikipedia. And so far, over 100 Wikipedia editors below support this ongoing disgrace - in the face of good faith efforts by many to sort it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pro...on_for_all_BLPs

Here is the list of people who refuse to offer equal protection to BLP victims. The names accompanied by red ALERT tags are samples of those who offer BLP-extremist / WP cultist excuses that allow for the ongoing mass defamation of WP outsiders. Non alert names tended to oppose for weak reasons hoping that Flagged Revisions would sort out the problem - even though Flagged Revisions was promised presently almost a year ago and shows no signs of being implemented yet. From the list, it is possible to identify BLP extremists, present and future.

Almost all the responses by the below extremists make no reference to equal protection of BLP victims, but think purely in terms of protecting "The Project" or "Community" and protecting their own rights as anonymous contributors.
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Kato   People who refuse to equally protect BLPs   Sun 28th December 2008, 2:06am
Eva Destruction   I'm certainly not disagreeing with your basic ...   Sun 28th December 2008, 2:44am
Coren   I'm certainly not disagreeing with your basic...   Sun 28th December 2008, 4:17am
Kato   [quote name='Eva Destruction' post='149132' date=...   Sun 28th December 2008, 12:57pm
Coren   Flagged Revisions were expected over two years a...   Sun 28th December 2008, 3:43pm
JoseClutch   [quote name='Kato' post='149159' date='Sun 28th D...   Sun 28th December 2008, 3:48pm
JoseClutch   [quote name='Eva Destruction' post='149132' date...   Sun 28th December 2008, 6:06pm
Kato   [quote name='Kato' post='149159' date='Sun 28th D...   Sun 28th December 2008, 10:22pm
JoseClutch   [quote name='JoseClutch' post='149190' date='Sun ...   Mon 29th December 2008, 4:36am
Random832   I am not saying that flagged revisions [b]will be...   Mon 29th December 2008, 5:00am
Coren   Note also that flagged revisions - as implemented...   Mon 29th December 2008, 7:19am
Random832   I should think that the ability to flag would be ...   Mon 29th December 2008, 1:06pm
EricBarbour   The ones who say things like; really crack me up....   Sun 28th December 2008, 3:07am
tarantino   There are currently 359 BLPs indefinitely protecte...   Sun 28th December 2008, 5:25am
Herschelkrustofsky   There are currently 359 BLPs indefinitely protect...   Sun 28th December 2008, 3:51pm
Kato   [quote name='tarantino' post='149142' date='Sat 2...   Sun 28th December 2008, 4:08pm
CharlotteWebb   We're talking about Seigenthaler style attack...   Tue 30th December 2008, 6:15pm
lolwut   That list of BLPs protected indefinitely contains ...   Sun 28th December 2008, 5:26pm
tarantino   There are endless examples of problematic edits to...   Sun 28th December 2008, 5:50pm
Peter Damian   There are endless examples of problematic edits t...   Sun 28th December 2008, 6:10pm
tarantino   The first one is incredibly bad... It's nic...   Sun 28th December 2008, 10:18pm
EricBarbour   The first one is incredibly bad, I don't know...   Mon 29th December 2008, 2:29am
Moulton   The notion of Flagged Revisions has been supersede...   Sun 28th December 2008, 10:59pm
Moulton   They need more than verified real names. They nee...   Mon 29th December 2008, 5:03am
Random832   Having them be able to be held responsible for the...   Mon 29th December 2008, 5:05am
Castle Rock   They need more than verified real names. They ne...   Mon 29th December 2008, 7:22am
groody   They need more than verified real names. They n...   Mon 29th December 2008, 8:48am
everyking   They need more than verified real names. They n...   Mon 29th December 2008, 9:03am
Anonymous editor   I would favor semi-protection AND flagged revision...   Mon 29th December 2008, 5:24am
tarantino   Today's featured unprotected biography is that...   Mon 29th December 2008, 3:50pm
Anonymous editor   how on earth did that stay for five days? Davewil...   Mon 29th December 2008, 5:26pm
HappyWanderer   I support semi-protection of all biographies of li...   Mon 29th December 2008, 5:53pm
Random832   Also, Wikipedia should not be allowed to have Sec...   Mon 29th December 2008, 7:33pm
The Wales Hunter   What are the odds the default option is to "l...   Mon 29th December 2008, 7:55pm
tarantino   Of course, semi-protecting biographies is no guara...   Tue 30th December 2008, 2:13pm
CharlotteWebb   [Wpuser]CharlotteWebb - WReviewer - makes very we...   Tue 30th December 2008, 6:33pm
Lar   [quote name='Kato' post='149129' date='Sun 28th D...   Tue 30th December 2008, 7:47pm
CharlotteWebb   Works for me. While we are at it, real names only...   Tue 30th December 2008, 8:11pm
luke   <snip> Works for me. While we are at it, ...   Tue 30th December 2008, 8:31pm
Kato   [center]Matt Yeager[i] BLP extremist vs namesake C...   Wed 31st December 2008, 5:06pm
CharlotteWebb   [b][center]Matt Yeager[i] BLP extremist vs namesa...   Wed 31st December 2008, 10:56pm
tarantino   This is the most obscene hypocrisy that blights...   Wed 31st December 2008, 10:55pm
Kato   [center]Welcome to BLP Busy body [Wpuser]MZMcBride...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 2:34am
tarantino   For a month prior to December 15 2008, Wikipedia a...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 2:55am
Kato   For a month prior to December 15 2008, Wikipedia ...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 3:19am
tarantino   While looking through the Wikipedia bios of B and ...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 4:30am
EricBarbour   Is it really necessary for an encyclopedia to cla...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 8:29am
Proabivouac   While looking through the Wikipedia bios of B and...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 8:41am
JoseClutch   [quote name='tarantino' post='149697' date='Fri 2...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 1:27pm
EricBarbour   It might serve this site's interest to send t...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 6:44am
Proabivouac   You may well be correct that it would best serve...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 7:09am
JoseClutch   [quote name='JoseClutch' post='149713' date='Fri ...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 4:19pm
Somey   Think about the problem of numbers. Like Drake...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 5:11pm
Rhindle   There is now a Straw Poll for a trial of flagged r...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 7:55pm
Kato   There is now a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 8:05pm
Kato   I didn't spot this earlier, but one of the ide...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 4:41am
Alison   The refined List of BLP extremists (or [i]pro-def...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 6:22am
Somey   Two people who aren't on Kato's list, but ...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 7:03am
tarantino   In the case of celebrities with problematic biogra...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 5:14pm
Somey   Take for example [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/in...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 5:23pm
Alison   Take for example [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/i...   Sat 3rd January 2009, 6:48pm
luke   In the case of celebrities with problematic biogra...   Sun 4th January 2009, 3:55pm
tarantino   This Irish rugby player has been continuously defa...   Sun 4th January 2009, 4:55pm
tarantino   This article on another rugby player has been roug...   Mon 5th January 2009, 8:26pm
Anonymous editor   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ga...   Thu 5th February 2009, 5:03am
AGK   I am quite correctly on this list: I do not suppor...   Wed 7th January 2009, 5:10pm
victim of censorship   Why can't JIMMY EAT the Wikipediot DOG FOOD???   Thu 8th January 2009, 10:39am
Kato   Please don't, however, post lists of Wikipedi...   Thu 8th January 2009, 12:43pm
Chris Croy   I oppose any sort of special protection for BLPs o...   Fri 9th January 2009, 6:25am
Somey   Why should a director be protected, yet the articl...   Fri 9th January 2009, 7:06am
Kato   One of the weakest justifications for not applying...   Fri 9th January 2009, 2:46pm
One   One of the weakest justifications for not applyin...   Fri 9th January 2009, 3:56pm
Giggy   Obscure biographies deserve protection the most. ...   Tue 13th January 2009, 8:45am
tarantino   Today's example of a web page that no reputabl...   Fri 6th February 2009, 1:49am
Alison   Today's example of a web page that no reputab...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:08am
groody   Today's example of a web page that no reputa...   Fri 6th February 2009, 1:07pm
Kato   Today's example of a web page that no reputab...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:14am
Milton Roe   The "Brazilian wax" statement was there...   Fri 6th February 2009, 8:17am
LaraLove   Not simply ignorant. If they were simply ignorant...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:13pm
Sarcasticidealist   This editor said that they'd considered that t...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:18pm
LaraLove   What's your threshold for "damaged...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:26pm
Bottled_Spider   It had Giovanni di Stefano, but I determined he...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:37pm
LaraLove   It had Giovanni di Stefano, but I determined he...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:40pm
KamrynMatika   This editor said that they'd considered that ...   Fri 6th February 2009, 9:25pm
Kato   This editor said that they'd considered that ...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:29pm
LaraLove   [quote name='LaraLove' post='154826' date='Fri 6t...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:34pm
JoseClutch   There was, I believe, an Australian soccer player ...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:36pm
Moulton   Offense, Censorship, and Mimetic Nihilism There i...   Fri 6th February 2009, 2:38pm
Lifebaka   What we're seeing here is actually people who...   Fri 6th February 2009, 5:42pm
LaraLove   I'd say no greater than 99.99%, personally. ...   Fri 6th February 2009, 6:16pm
tarantino   I guess this edit on Apr 1 2008 should have been t...   Sat 7th February 2009, 4:14pm
Anonymous editor   Jim Nantz see the criticism section. I consider ...   Thu 12th February 2009, 2:27am
tarantino   Joe Ferguson is unhappy with his biography..   Thu 12th February 2009, 5:18am
Milton Roe   Joe Ferguson is unhappy with his biography.. Ne...   Thu 12th February 2009, 9:37am
EricBarbour   Neener, neener, Joe. You're not the boss of u...   Thu 12th February 2009, 9:51am
tarantino   Oh my, Pauly Shore is in pretty bad shape. In addi...   Thu 12th February 2009, 7:11pm
UseOnceAndDestroy   Oh my, Pauly Shore is in pretty bad shape. In add...   Thu 12th February 2009, 9:17pm
Anonymous editor   The Wikipedia entry for "Pauly Shore" co...   Thu 12th February 2009, 9:38pm
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