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Wikipedia has become home base for a loose worldwide network of pedophiles who are campaigning to spin the popular online encyclopedia in ...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/25/...e-on-wikipedia/

[Somey]

This is only tangentially related to the thread, but I was looking at Netflix earlier today and noticed that a Frontline documentary DVD called "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan" releases this week. It documents the practice of "bacha bereesh," whereby rich Afghani men (mostly warlords and opium kingpins) abduct and sexually enslave young boys, forcing them to wear women's clothing and dance for them, etc. Apparently this has been going on for centuries, though it's illegal and has been for quite some time. However, there's no Wikipedia article about it - just a mention in the article LGBT rights in Afghanistan (T-H-L-K-D). That, however, links to this article, which is a bit more disturbing, IMO.

My question is, why on earth does WP carry an article like Pretty boy (T-H-L-K-D) at all, if not to support (if not encourage) pedophilia? At best it's an Urban Dictionary term, hardly an encyclopedia subject. And note that the original version had a significantly different meaning than the current one.

"Zero tolerance" indeed!

[thekohser]

My question is, why on earth does WP carry an article like Pretty boy (T-H-L-K-D) at all...

Judging from the article's edit history, I would say its purpose may be to prove once and for all just how bad an article could be if left primarily to the editorial whims of IP addresses and Wikipedia bots:

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## Another Solipsist is an interesting one, blocked in June 2008), http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...notherSolipsist , interesting as he was involved in recruiting minors into adminship roles, see here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=221886627 , and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req..._adminship/Ryan , where he supports the candidacy of a 13 year old admin. “Would anyone vote for anyone that couldn't read? I certainly wouldn't, regardless of the candidate's age. Despite the implications of your analogy, no one's arguing that you should vote for a child by virtue of their being a child -- that's ageism, too. But if you don't vote for a five year old, it should be because they can't read [etc.], not simply because they're five. The point is to judge others as individuals, not members of a group. --AnotherSolipsist (talk) 17:28, 25 June 2008 (UTC)”. I.e arguing , in a way that is creepily familiar, that you can’t define maturity by age, and that if someone is ready for being a Wikipedia administrator, it is OK for them to be a Wikipedia administrator. As usual, I was the one who was blocked for complaining about this.

I've heard a rumor that it's believed that AnotherSolipsist is the alternative account of a Wikimedia Foundation staff member.