Gary Weiss on the verge of a nervous breakdown Options

[WordBomb]

I'm told that all the recent tinkering with the article autobiography on Gary Weiss has put Weiss himself in a strange place, psychologically. He -- as Mantanmoreland -- has been begging many former allies for intervention and even asked ArbCom -- as Stetsonharry -- to be unbanned.

Of course, Stetsonharry was shown the door, but not before expressing his deep, DEEP, red-faced, vein-bulging, scowling disappointment.

Apparently it was Huldra's inspired addition of the Wikipuffery category that really set him off.

If had a devious side, it might suggest that just a little more improvement of the article (and it could certainly use more than a little improving) would yield some really interesting Weissian fireworks.

[The Adversary]

Off protection, Bagley reverted to remove the stuff, Weiss reverted it back as "vandalism." Eventually, Huldra removed it. Christofurio reverted.

Huldra removed it again. IPs resume edit warring, along with Christofurio and Huidro. MONGO reverted the Boyd story out. JzG removed puffery category and COI tags that had been added by Huldra, with a preposterous argument, but, to be sure, Huldra didn't justify them in Talk. Huldra is a 2005 registered editor with 13,000 live edits, vast majority in article space. No block history.

...as I suspect most involved users know; "Huldra" is WR Member No.: 194. And therefore not really to be taken seriously on wp. (And since Jayvd fixed the 48-template: I am quite happy and busy in that field.... )

However, I got involved in Byrne/Weiss area years ago, when I looked at the Byrne-article and found it absolutely horribly slanted. A pure "attack-page", if you ever saw one. And I only dared to get involved....because I am not a native English speaker! "Hence I am clearly no Wordbomb-sock", see this.) Honestly! The times were really, really crazy back then; you got blocked just for sounding like Wordbomb ......

The answer seems to be that he (as Mantanmoreland) did a complicated little dance to get into the good graces of SlimVirgin, who in turn did a complicated little dance to get into the good graces of certain high mucky-mucky wiki admins, back in the dark ages.

Yupp. SV mentioned it here: "I'm reluctant to take action against Mantanmoreland, in part because WordBomb is a troublemaker and troll, and in part because Mantan has been extremely helpful on another page."

I don´t know which "other page" he was "extremely helpful on", but Matan tried to do exactly the same towards Cla68, "smooching up" to him, see this thread. Didn´t work there, though.

Now, if some completely new wiki-stranger ever comes along, and starts helping me with the -48-villages...and then, just by pure chance, gets interested in the Weiss/Byrne/Naked shorting-articles; I tell ya: my sock-alarm will go off like Big-Ben....

It was nothing personal in it when I started editing in this area....but I had to fight every sentence of the way to get the worst attacks out of the Byrne-article ...and get some positive info in. And it turned out my worst opponents were...surprise, surprise; Matan-socks. And, as I have said before; I never wanted the Weiss-article turned into an attack-piece; just to get that outrageous self-inflated puffery out. But obviously it did not work. Perhaps we should go the other way, and mention his Eagle Scout merit badges ?