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[Herschelkrustofsky]

The 2009 Wikipedia Review WP:DICK of Distinction Awards Pageant

It's all about the drama.

May we have the envelope, please...


This year's winner is renowned for his keen fashion sense, as well as his incandescent charm and sterling sense of fairness and justice. We proudly present this year's Jimbo® statuette to:

David Gerard!

In a real cliff-hanger of a match, David squeaked ahead of the runner-up in this year's competition, FT2, who put up a spirited fight. We expect great things of FT2 in future competitions.

Deep in the catacombs beneath the Wikipedia Review, there is a vast chamber, from which may be heard the eerie cackling of Somey as he labors over his image editor/avatar generator. It is said to be like a cross between Vulcan's Forge and one of Dr. Seuss's contraptions. It is here, they say, that Somey produced the new, 2009 model Jimbo® statuette:

And now, before proceeding the the winners in the other categories, we'd like to present this...

Lifetime Achievement Award

to

PoetGuy!

PoetGuy delighted Wikipedia fans, and in particular, those of us at the Review, with his outstanding performance in innumerable sockpuppet roles, literally, a cast of thousands (known to the cognoscenti as "PoetHorde.") As the pert coquette "Poetlister," he became for a time Wikipedia's most celebrated martyr, believed to have been unjustly banned for socking. When the truth of his culpability came out, PoetGuy was disgraced. His old nemesis SlimVirgin wrote a self-righteous tome in which she made PoetGuy the center of a vast conspiracy against herself, and attempted to make his disgrace into her vindication. However, among members of the Academy, PoetGuy's performances in such a wide array of roles deserve to be recognized as the pinnacle of his craft, right up there with The Three Faces of Eve.

Let's take a minute now to remember PoetGuy's contributions to the Review. (roll clip) As Poetlister, he was named by Lir to be an admin at this site. The Poetlister character enchanted us with her endearing fantasies, including a fake wedding and honeymoon on a romantic isle, embellished with images from From Here to Eternity. Then there was Guy, the stuffy, proper Englishman with a heart of gold and an obsession with Christian Zionism. Guy became a moderator here. He had a faithful, putatively Jewish companion, Yehudi. And finally, there was the flip side of the stuffy, proper Englishman, in the form of the ever-popular Taxwoman, who was raunchy, babelicious, and an expert on the London Fetish Scene.

So, for having generated unforgettable drama at Wikipedia and across the wide, wide interwebs, the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award goes to PoetGuy!

...and now, back to our regular awards presentation: the Straight Shooter award for most ethical admin goes to Thatcher, who made a very strong showing, thanks in part to a ringing endorsement from this year's runner-up, Cool Hand Luke (who is actually now an Arb.) Cool Hand's nom de Review, of course, is One.

The Cojones de latón, for the non-admin who has distinguished himself in combat with the cabal, goes to Cla68, who was last year's runner-up. This year's runner-up is The Fat Man Who Never Came Back, who was particularly recognized for his lethal use of humor on the battlefield.

In the Miss Incongeniality department, Elonka and JzG wound up in a dead heat, so they will be sharing the honors. This marks the second year in a row where JzG has made it to the top -- his incivility is legend! And Elonka makes her debut sharing the number one spot.

Finally, in the Tag Team Event, the award goes to Odd nature, Salmon of Doubt, KillerChihuahua, Jim62sch, Mu301 and FeloniousMonk, also known as the ID (Intelligent Design) Cabal.

Congratulations all around, and we'll see you next year on the red carpet!

[Bottled_Spider]

I'm pleasantly surprised by JzG's performance. I honestly thought the best he'd do this year would be second place, if he was lucky. After his very recent disgrace in the SmashTheState fiasco, though, he's going to have to work really hard to even get a mention next year I'll bet. Chin up, Guy!

Sorry to see Peter Damian wasn't appreciated the way he should have been. But that's his way ..... very subtle; quite invisible to most drama fans. Giana's fall was both spectacular and predictable. I'm looking forward to a mirthsome 2009 on Wikipedia with him. Would an eventual, permanent ban, complete with mucho hissiness, drama and mass revenge-retirements from his supporters be too much to expect? I hope not! You go, girls! Heh!

[dtobias]

I'm pleasantly surprised by JzG's performance. I honestly thought the best he'd do this year would be second place, if he was lucky. After his very recent disgrace in the SmashTheState fiasco, though, he's going to have to work really hard to even get a mention next year I'll bet. Chin up, Guy!

Sorry to see Peter Damian wasn't appreciated the way he should have been. But that's his way ..... very subtle; quite invisible to most drama fans. Giana's fall was both spectacular and predictable. I'm looking forward to a mirthsome 2009 on Wikipedia with him. Would an eventual, permanent ban, complete with mucho hissiness, drama and mass revenge-retirements from his supporters be too much to expect? I hope not! You go, girls! Heh!

Interestingly, Guy and Damian are actually quite similar in their agendas, and a recent comment on-wiki has Damian saying "Guy is not so bad."

[Peter Damian]

Interestingly, Guy and Damian are actually quite similar in their agendas, and a recent comment on-wiki has Damian saying "Guy is not so bad."

He's not. Just a bit erratic and mad and impulsive. Human qualities, no? And he collects lawnmower engines.

[wikiwhistle]

Interestingly, Guy and Damian are actually quite similar in their agendas, and a recent comment on-wiki has Damian saying "Guy is not so bad."

He's not. Just a bit erratic and mad and impulsive. Human qualities, no? And he collects lawnmower engines.

I agree, I mean he might not be nice to other users sometimes, but at least he makes sure the articles on flakey theories are ok and that they don't rave about them when there's no peer-reviewed scientific evidence.

I have a similar agenda (i.e. we are supposed to have WP:NPOV not a misleading POV) where these articles are concerned, but hope I'm a bit friendlier most of the time than JzG, that's just my personal style though. I have zero tolerance for those pushing a misleading POV that there's any valid evidence for most/any of these things having any efficacy beyond the placebo effect, though.

Acupuncture is the one they usually cite as the one with most evidence, however yet another meta study, as with most ones, has recently said there's none. Having said that, I still practice some alt therapies, most people needs something to give them some fake sense of control over their life.

This post has been edited by wikiwhistle: Sun 8th February 2009, 4:26pm

[Milton Roe]

I have a similar agenda (i.e. we are supposed to have WP:NPOV not a misleading POV) where these articles are concerned, but hope I'm a bit friendlier most of the time than JzG, that's just my personal style though. I have zero tolerance for those pushing a misleading POV that there's any valid evidence for most/any of these things having any efficacy beyond the placebo effect, though.

The whole idea behind NPOV was that it was supposed to mirror the various POVs in print, more or less. But has fallen victim to scientism more than once on Wikipedia, and often when it has, JzG has been in there pushing and saying nasty things.

A lovely irony of all this is that Guy Chapman's chosen moniker on WP is from the book and 2005 movie The Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy: Gag Halfrunt: Zaphod's just zis guy, ya know. And Guy chose JzG for "Just zis Guy." Heh. But the irony is that a Kool Aider like Guy would pick a film (and book) in which occur many motifs which satirize Wikipedia very well. The destruction of things for meaningless reasons and in the course of meaningless rules (ArbCom was made for Vogons). The politician Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Galaxy, who, as a not-terribly-bright playboy, reminds one of a certain Wikipedian more than a little. There's the Hitchhiker's Guide itself, which has outpaced the Encyclopedia Galactica as the #1 resource book in print in the galaxy, mainly due to being a little cheaper . And also because the cover says Don't Panic in large letters, which people find soothing (I think it should be a pillar of WP).

And then there's a device which we should use for the trophy for the tag-team or Miss Incogeniality. A "weapon" from the film called the Point of View Gun. If you shoot somebody with the fearsome POV-gun, they immediately see your point of view. Something nobody has obviously ever used on Guy. I think he's wanted one of his own, and has been using the block button as a poor substitute.


Trillian using the dreaded POV Gun on a hapless man

[tarantino]

A lovely irony of all this is that Guy Chapman's chosen moniker on WP is from the book and 2005 movie The Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy

Guy was using the moniker just zis Guy at H2G2[1], long before Wikipedia was a twinkle in Larry Sanger's eye.

[1] 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Earth version, was founded by Adams and is currently run by the BBC.