Ask the Leaker, Go ask Malice, I think he'll know Options

[MaliceAforethought]

How about the desysopping of SlimVirgin? Was there some discussion of what she was really guilty of, instead of what they publicly convicted her for?

Are you talking about the temp desysop in 2008? If so that'll be in the C68-FM-SV omnibus thread when it hits the top of the list. If that's not your poison, when did this happen?

[MaliceAforethought]

Malice, tempers are starting to flare. Do you have more regarding this between Jimbo and Bishonen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...for_a_change.3F

Accusations are flying!

Jimbo needs to explain himself. Defending silence.

what is going on between Jimbo and Bishonen?

I pulled everything from the block until they stopped talking about it. I'll go back later and see if we can't suss out why Jimbo is afeared of toxic dinosaurs (translation:look up what else Jimmy had to say before).

[The Adversary]

How about the desysopping of SlimVirgin? Was there some discussion of what she was really guilty of, instead of what they publicly convicted her for?

Are you talking about the temp desysop in 2008? If so that'll be in the C68-FM-SV omnibus thread when it hits the top of the list. If that's not your poison, when did this happen?

Nope, it was just after the C68-FM-SV omnibus case. It was decided here. (And WR-folks discussed it here. )

[Shalom]

Malice, thank you for posting the Cool3 content.

[A Horse With No Name]

Malice, is there any internal Arbcom debate about the Law/The Undertow situation? We know that at least two arbitrators - Casliber and John Vanderberg - had previous knowledge of what was going on before the masquerade was made public. And when the you-know-what hit the fan, half of the arbitrators (led by Risker) completely refused to answer a simple yes-or-no question on whether they were aware of this.

[Jagärdu]

I think it is high time we get some of the Arbcom discussions about Cirt out here. Bump him to the top of the list. Arbcom's recent behavior surrounding Prioryman/ChrisO's involvement in Cirt's RfC makes it obvious that they are biased in this case. It would be nice to see some of their prior discussions of Cirt.

This post has been edited by Jagärdu: Sun 24th July 2011, 4:41pm

[MaliceAforethought]

Malice, is there any internal Arbcom debate about the Law/The Undertow situation? We know that at least two arbitrators - Casliber and John Vanderberg - had previous knowledge of what was going on before the masquerade was made public. And when the you-know-what hit the fan, half of the arbitrators (led by Risker) completely refused to answer a simple yes-or-no question on whether they were aware of this.

I've seen mentions a few times during searches, just need the time to glue together everything to give a clear picture of who knew what when. Already on the list to be done.

[MaliceAforethought]

I think it is high time we get some of the Arbcom discussions about Cirt out here. Bump him to the top of the list. Arbcom's recent behavior surrounding Prioryman/ChrisO's involvement in Cirt's RfC makes it obvious that they are biased in this case. It would be nice to see some of their prior discussions of Cirt.

By popular request (demand?) and since HRIP7 filled me in on some dates, we'll be doing these Cirt-related items next:

*The Hunger arbitration case (Cirt was called "Smeelgova" then): June to August 2006
*The COFS arbitration case (Cirt was called "Smee" then): July to September 2007 (note that Smee disappeared when the case started, and returned as "Curt Wilhelm VonSavage" the very day it was wrapped up).
*The ARBSCI case: December 2008 to May 2009

[Vigilant]

Ok, ok, ok...

I'll do the heavy lifting for my JVM fetish.

A synopsis:

tl:dr; Jeff is a litigious guy who says many strange things and gets called on them ( http://scofacts.org/merkey.html and http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%...8&tof=-1&off=1)

Jeff Merkey got into it with the Linux community over the SCO Group's attempt to sue everyone and their dog, supporting SCO and Microsoft and badmouthing anyone who criticized them.
Variously, he (just hitting the highlights):
* made a bunch of stupid statements on the Linux Kernel Mailing List(lkml) and then attempted to tell a highly technical group that his computers had all been hacked.
* trolled the Yahoo! SCOX and groklaw message boards
* sued, pro se, over perceived online slights with bizarre legal justifications
* got active on wikipedia in his own special way and tried to control the article on himself and various other article groups(American Indian, plants)
* got setback on wikipedia for socking, being overly aggressive, etc and took a bunch of strange policies ("right to edit", "I paid, you can't ban me", "all gay admins must recuse")
* got repeatedly blocked, AN/I, RFC, ArbCommed
* eventually, prevailed on Jimbo to delete his article, to the relief of wikipediots everywhere

Merkey sockpuppets: (contributions are more useful since the user/talk pages have been largely deleted)
* A host of IPs that geolocated/trace routed to Jeff's home/work/etc
* Jeffrey Vernon Merkey (main account)( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...Merkey(subpages still intact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeffrey_...Merkey/trolls))
* Waya Sahoni ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...ns/Waya_sahoni)
* Gadugi ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Gadugi)
* Peyoteman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...ions/PeyoteMan)
* Sint Holo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...ions/Sint_Holo)
* Jvmphoto ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jvmphoto)

These are the main accounts with the largest number of edits.
There are at least 30 sockpuppets/IP accounts.

Major cases:
* (October 2005) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...s_and_Redwolf24
* (July 2007) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...y_Vernon_Merkey
* (March 2006) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...ion/Waya_sahoni
* (October 2005) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req.../Gadugi_vs._Fvw

Various Arb things:
* (September 2008) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...ng.2Fharassment
* (July 2007) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...y_Vernon_Merkey
* (November 2010) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...y_Vernon_Merkey
* (August 2008) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...y_Vernon_Merkey
* (May 2009) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...y_Vernon_Merkey
* (October 2009) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...hive48#Jvmphoto
* (June 2010) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...y_Vernon_Merkey
* (February 2006) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...ser:Waya_sahoni
* (May 2007) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req..._Vernon_Merkey2

I've got piles more, but I think this list is already over broad.

This post has been edited by Vigilant: Tue 26th July 2011, 8:35pm

[WordBomb]

I'm interested in anything beyond what's already been posted pertaining to myself (Judd Bagley or WordBomb) and Gary Weiss (primarily as Mantanmoreland, Samiharris, janeyryan or johnnyb256).

[Rhindle]

I'm interested in anything beyond what's already been posted pertaining to myself (Judd Bagley or WordBomb) and Gary Weiss (primarily as Mantanmoreland, Samiharris, janeyryan or johnnyb256).

Have you seen this one? http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=34229

This post has been edited by Rhindle: Sun 31st July 2011, 1:12am

[standixon]

I don't often post and mostly lurk instead of logging on: however I came to the review starting with the first mention of Jeff Merkey at Groklaw and watching in disbelief the antics on WP and other venues. I'd like to second Vigilant's requests for anything Merkey related in these leaks.

I've always wanted to see what was behind the support some of the villains of WP, such as Slim, JZG aka Guy Chapman for Jeff Merkey. I could understand some people falling for the "I'm being trolled/harassed" routine but it should have been obvious that he was not really on the same planet as the rest of us.

[Ottava]

Did anyone ever request stuff on Geogre? That would have been early summer of 2009. Utgard Loki was his other name. There could be many residual items that would have come up throughout 2009.

[SB_Johnny]

Did anyone ever request stuff on Geogre? That would have been early summer of 2009. Utgard Loki was his other name. There could be many residual items that would have come up throughout 2009.

I think Malice may have gotten a bit bored with us, since he's not so much the center of attention. You could probably give him some pointers, of course.

[The Joy]

Did anyone ever request stuff on Geogre? That would have been early summer of 2009. Utgard Loki was his other name. There could be many residual items that would have come up throughout 2009.

I think Malice may have gotten a bit bored with us, since he's not so much the center of attention. You could probably give him some pointers, of course.

[Rhindle]

Did anyone ever request stuff on Geogre? That would have been early summer of 2009. Utgard Loki was his other name. There could be many residual items that would have come up throughout 2009.

I think Malice may have gotten a bit bored with us, since he's not so much the center of attention. You could probably give him some pointers, of course.

I think he's just waiting for the new fall season. There are plenty of reruns to keep up on though.

[EricBarbour]

Dmcdevit was never a steward.

I stand corrected--he certainly acted like one.....
when he ran for the audit subcommittee, he neglected to mention why his CU power was yanked.
Same for when they gave his powers back in 2009. But I can't figure out why his CU was removed. Anyone?

This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Fri 12th August 2011, 3:51am

[No one of consequence]

Dmcdevit was never a steward.

I stand corrected--he certainly acted like one.....
when he ran for the audit subcommittee, he neglected to mention why his CU power was yanked.
Same for when they gave his powers back in 2009. But I can't figure out why his CU was removed. Anyone?

He voluntarily gave up his access while he was in good standing. Possibly just to take a break or because he was sick of the nonsense.

Of course, I got sick of the nonsense, gave up my access, and then created the Audit committee and got my access back to be on it, too, so I may just be projecting.

[Sololol]

Did anyone ever request stuff on Geogre? That would have been early summer of 2009. Utgard Loki was his other name. There could be many residual items that would have come up throughout 2009.

I think Malice may have gotten a bit bored with us, since he's not so much the center of attention. You could probably give him some pointers, of course.

Can't blame him. Hopefully we've not seen the last of him.



Was it released in the secret forum?

[RDH(Ghost In The Machine)]

Not a question but a comment:
You're my new hero Dr. House.
And the most exciting thing to happen to this place in eons!